Pillar of the Boatmen "(publice posierunt)" by the guild of sailors of Lutetia, from the "civitas" of the Parisii "(nautae Parisiaci)". These sailors would have been merchants who travelled along the Seine. The main dedication is to Jupiter in the form of "Iovis Optimus Maximus" ("Jove Best and Greatest"). The names of the emperor and the supreme deity appear in the dative case as the recipients of the dedication. The remaining theonyms are nominative legends that accompany individual depictions of the gods. These are (in the order they appear below) Jove, Tarvos Trigaranos (the Bull with three Cranes), Volcanus (Vulcan), Esus, Cernunnos, Castor, Smertrios,
Epithalamion (poem) their life. He has moved on from the anxiety of every hour. This is the constellation between Cancer and Gemini. "When once the Crab behind his back he sees." The constellation are shifting. In this case, the time is now towards the end of July since the constellation is moving. Spenser likens Elizabeth to Maia, the Goddess of Nursing Mothers. "Like unto Maia, when as Jove her tooke, In Tempe, lying on the flowry gras, Twixt sleepe and wake, after she weary was, With bathing in the Acidalian brooke." Maia was one of the Pleiades, whom Zeus (Jove, also called