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

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