Note 035
From Chapter 7 of the Decline & Fall

Herodian, 1. viii. p. 272. The Celtic deity was supposed to be Apollo, and received under that name the thanks of the senate. A temple was like-wise built to Venus the bald, in honour of the women of Aquileia, who had given up their hair to make ropes for the military engines.

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