Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[1180] S. Reinach, Antiquités nat.,—Descr. raisonnée du musée de St. Germain-en-Laye, pp. 137, 156-68; H. Gaidoz, Le grand dieu gaul. chez les Allobroges, 1902, p. vi. Cf. J. Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, p. 81, and Folk-Lore, xvi, 1905, p. 273. Dis Pater is identified by Professor Rhys and M. G. Bloch (E. Lavisse, Hist. de France, i, 51-2) with Cernunnos (see p. 284, infra). Cf. W. Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals, p. 286.

M. H. Gaidoz (Rev. arch., 3^e sér., xx, 1892, p. 213) says that the worship of Dis Pater in Britain is attested—it hardly needs attestation—by two inscriptions (Corpus inscr. Lat., vii, 154, 250). The former is not worth quoting. The latter—one of many inscriptions addressed to the Di Manes which are contained in the Corpus and in Ephemeris epigraphica, (vols. iii and vii) contains the words Secreti Manes qui regna Acherusia Ditis incolitis.

[1181] B. G., vi, 21, § 2.

[1182] Germ., 9.

[1183] Rev. des études anc., iv, 1902, p. 228; v, 1903, p. 106.

[1184] See G. Boissier, La rel. rom., i, 6.

[1185] Class. Rev., xviii, 1904, pp. 361, 367-72, 375; Folk-Lore, xv, 1904, p. 264; xvi, 1905, p. 321; xvii, 1906, p. 30.

[1186] Rev. des études anc., iv, 1902, p. 221.

[1187] Ib., v, 1903, p. 110.

[1188] Ib., vi, 1904, pp. 111 n. 1, 134 n. 4; A. Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, ii, 1805-6.