of a Gaulish people; and, transferred to their town, it is now continued in the abbreviated form of Chorges. The Teutonic name of the same etymology was common as that of a man, and in fact is still so: witness the Anglo-Saxon Heađoric, the modern German Hedrich, and other variations of the same compound.
Another Allobrogic inscription gives the Gaulish Mars another name: an altar found at Culoz, near Belley, in the department of Ain reads: N(umini) Aug(usto), Deo Marti Segomoni Dunati, Cassia Saturnina ex vot(o), v(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito).[1] Segomo is known to us by other inscriptions at Arinthod[2] in the Jura, at Contes[3] near Nice, at Lyons,[4] and at Nuits in the Côte d'Or. The god's name is found also in Ireland; for with the word netta (in later Irish nia,[5] genitive niath or niadh, 'a champion or warrior'), it forms the personal name Netta-Segamonas, which may be rendered Propugnatoris Segomonis, '(of) Segomo's Champion.' It was a kind of name very congenial to ancient Irish ideas, and it occurs in three[6] distinct Ogam inscriptions in the
- ↑ Rev. Celt. iv. 11; Rev. Archéologique (1852), ix. 315.
- ↑ Rev. Celt. iv. 11; Monnier, Annuaire du Jura for 1852, plate 1, which I have not been able to consult.
- ↑ Mém. de la Soc. des Ant. de France (1850), xx. 58-9.
- ↑ Rhys, Lectures, p. 395; Stokes, Celtic Declension, which appeared first in Vol. xi. of Bezzenberger's Beitræge (Göttingen, 1886), p. 87.
- ↑ Gruter, lviii. 5.
- ↑ Nevertheless, the name is not given by Brash in his book on The Ogam inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil; but by correctly reading Brash's copies I had detected it in the case of the Stradbally inscription (Brash, p. 254, pl. xxxv), and of one of those at Ardmore (Brash, p. 247). In 1883 I had the pleasure of seeing, by inspection of the stones, that my readings were correct, and also of finding Netas(egam)onas in an inscription at Seskinan (Brash, p. 262).
