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I. THE GAULISH PANTHEON.
To be both intelligible and approximately correct, he must either say that, according to the Gauls, Mars was the chief of the gods, or else that Jupiter was the god of war. The latter was the way in which the scholiast chose to put it, and he is supported by certain statues purporting to be those of a Gaulish Jupiter, which represent him as clad like a Roman warrior in a cuirass and a paludamentum: one such was found at Vaison, while another of colossal dimensions was discovered some ten years ago at Séguret in the department of Vaucluse.[1]
- ↑ See the first of M. Gaidoz's Études de Mythologie gauloise (Paris, 1886), pp. 5-6 and plate; also M. Rochetin's article in the Mém. de l'Acad. de Vaucluse, 1883, pp. 184—189, which I have not been able to consult.
