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AQUAE (Lat. for "waters'')

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUAE (See also:Lat. for "See also:waters'')  , a name given by the See also:Romans to sites where See also:mineral springs issued from the See also:earth . Over a See also:hundred can be identified, some declaring by their See also:modern names their See also:ancient use: See also:Aix-See also:les-Bains in See also:Savoy (See also:Aquae Sabaudicae), Aix-en-See also:Provence (Aquae Sextiae), Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen (Aquae Grani), &c . Only two occur in See also:Britain: Aquae See also:Solis —less correctly Aquae Solis—at See also:Bath in See also:Somerset, which was famous, and See also:Buxton (called Aquae simply), which seems to have been far less important . Aquae Stills was occupied by the Romans almost as soon as they entered the See also:island in A.U . 43, and flourished till the end of the See also:Roman See also:period . It was frequented by soldiers quartered in Britain, by the Britons, and by visitors from See also:north See also:Gaul, and its name was known in See also:Italy, though patients probably seldom travelled so far . Like most mineral springs known to the ancients, it was under the See also:protection of a See also:local deity, the See also:Celtic Sul, whom the Romans equated with their See also:Minerva . Stately remains of its See also:baths and See also:temple have been found at various times, especially in 1790 and 1878-1895, and may still be seen there .

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