same as the Celtic word Ac or Acq. There is an
Aix in Savoy, and Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in the Rhine Province of
Prussia. Sometimes the Aquae took a name from a deity. In France there
were the Aquae Bormonis, the waters of the God Bormo
(Bourbonnes-les-Bains): in England, Aquae Sulis, the Waters of the
Goddess Sulis, which by an error became Solis in our books, as if they
were called the waters of the Sun. The inscriptions found at Bath name
the goddess Sulia.]

[Footnote 85: Plutarch means to say that the Ambrones and Ligurians
were of one stock, and some writers conclude that they were both
Celts. This may be so or it may not, for evidence is wanting. Of all
the absurd parade of learning under which ancient history has been
buried by modern critics, the weightiest and the most worthless part
is that which labours to discover the relationship of people of whom
we have only little, and that little often conflicting, evidence.]

[Footnote 86: The Lar according to D'Anville, not the Arc.]

[Footnote 87: Statements of numbers killed are not worth much, even in
any modern engagements. Velleius (ii. 12) makes the number of
barbarians who fell in both battles above 150,000.]

[Footnote 88: The Romans called it Massilia; now Marseilles. It was an
old Greek colony of the Phokaeans. Strabo (p. 183) says that the people
of Massilia aided the Romans in these battles and that Marius made
them a present of the cut which he had formed from the Rhone to the
sea, which the Massilians turned to profit by levying a toll on those
who used it.]

[Footnote 89: A Greek lyric poet who lived in the seventh century B.C.
His fragments have often been collected.]

[Footnote 90: This was an old Roman fashion. (Livius, 1, c. 37; 41, c.
16.)]

[Footnote 91: Plutarch often uses the word Fortune [Greek: tuche], the
meaning of which may be collected from the passages in which it
occurs. Nemesis [Greek: Nemesis] is a Greek goddess, first mentioned
by Hesiod, and often mentioned by the Greek Tragoedians. She is the
enemy of excessive prosperity and its attendant excessive pride and
arrogance; she humbles those who have been elevated too high, tames
their pride and checks their prosperous career. Nemesis had a temple
and statue at Rhamnus in Attica.]

[Footnote 92: The Roman Athesis, the Italian Adige, the German Etsch.
The extravagance of this chapter of Plutarch is remarkable.]

[Footnote 93: The Eagle, Aquila, was the Roman standard in us