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32 and Proxumis (7), more or less completely. With the Matres, as with the Matronæ of Cisalpine Gaul, may be associated the grouped goddesses called Junones, who are mentioned on a votive inscription at Nîmes ( 3067), as Junonib(us) Montan(is), and at Aigues-Mortes, Gard (4101), as Junonibus Aug(ustis). These Junones appear to have been also worshipped in the zone of the central health resorts; for example, an inscription at Néris-les-bains, dép. Allier, of the Antonine period, reads ‘Numinibus Augustorum et Iunonibus Neriomagienses.’ On an inscription also between Langres and Toul we have Deabus Iunonibus, while at Bordeaux ( 567) there is an inscription Iunonibus Iuliæ et Sextiliæ. In Southern Gaul, as in Spain, we also find the worship of the nymphs prominent under their Latin name. At Saint Satumin-d’Apt there are two inscriptions ( 1090, 1091), near Goult one (1092), at Apt one (1093), one each at Carpentras, Rasteau and Vercoiran. There are two at Vaison, one being dedicated ‘Nymphis Augustis,’ and also an inscription with the same words at Bourguin. At Les Fumades, near Allègre, dép. Gard, there are six inscriptions, one of which has the words Nymphis Augustis. At Uzès there is a record of the dedication of a temple to the nymphs in the first century A.D. At Nîmes five votive tablets to nymphs occur. At Puech, in Provence, there are three votive tablets to nymphs. At Castéra-Veveril we find one, at Lez (?) two, and at Castillon one. At Alzey one, at Mombach one, at Castel two. In the zone of the south of France, too, we find another name of a group of goddesses like those already described, in the case of the Baginae, the companions of Baginus, the local deities of Mt. Vanige and the village of Bésignan: the names ‘Bagino et Baginahabus’ occur on an inscription at Bellecombe, canton du Buis, dép. de la Drôme. There is a goddess Perta commemorated in dép. Gard, arrond. Nîmes, canton Vauvert: the name occurs in the dative Pertae. The name Bormāna, the companion of the god Bormānus, occurs also on an inscription ‘Bormano et Bormanæ’ at the village of Aix-en-Diois, Drôme, and in the phrase Bormanæ Augustæ on an inscription of Saint Vulbaz