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Rh 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). Segomo is known to us by other inscriptions at Arinthod in the Jura, at Contes near Nice, at Lyons, 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, 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 distinct Ogam inscriptions in the