Sulis to various Indo-European words for "sun" (cf. Homeric Greek ηέλιος, Sanskrit "sūryah" "sun", from Proto-Indo-European "*suhlio-"). Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called "Aquae Sulis" ("the waters of Sulis"). Her name primarily appears on inscriptions discovered at Bath, with only a single instance outside of Britain at Alzey, Germany. This is not surprising, as Celtic deities often preserved their archaic localisation. They remained to the end associated with a specific place, often a cleft in the earth, a spring, pool or well. The Greeks referred to
Marius (name) Marius (name) Marius is a male given name, a Roman family name, and a modern surname. The name Marius was used by members of the Roman "gens" Maria. It is thought to be derived from either the Roman war god Mars or from the Latin root "mas" or "maris" meaning "male". It may also derive from the Latin word "mare" meaning "sea", the plural of which is "maria". In Christian times, it was syncretized as a masculine form of the unrelated feminine given name Maria, from the Hebrew Miriam, Aramaic variant Mariam, and used alongside it. Today, the name Marius