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 CINABL 4Mf«nl flf tbtt ttpuldinl efaamborB aihuted above tlie water ware opened at the end of the last and the beginning of the preeent oentoriea, and were feimd to oontain painted Taaea and golden enuunenta, while above them were stehw with reUefii and inecriptioDs; bat at preeent nothing of the kind is diacorered. The strip of coast containing the tombs is called BelUmkd. To the E. of DatkaUd on the S. coast there is a small rock, containing a ruined tower,caIled Pyryot; and N. of the present town, there is upon the east coast a good harboor, called iVdao, where then are said to be some Hellenic sepulchral cham- bers This harbour, and the one at Doikalid, are probablj the two, which Dicaearchus assigns to Gi> molos (DescripL Graec 138, p. 463, ed. Fubr): The Greeks still call the island CintoUi but it is also called AfyaUUrOt because a sOver mine is said to have been dJscovered here. Others suppose, how- ever, that this naoM maj have been given to it even hj the ancients fran its white cli£Ga. (Toumefort, 7Va- «s2t, &c. voL L p. Ill, seq., transL; Fiedler, iZeiw dmrdk Griockmlamd^ vol. IL p.344, seq. ; Ross, Reiam amfdetk Griech, /lueAi, voLiii. p. 22, seq.) GINABI, a town of Hispania Baetica, near Cades {Cadiz), mentiooed by Livy (zxvui. 37). [P.S.] GIMAEDOCOLPI'TAE (KiMu8oicoAwfr«y x<^ PtoL), a district on the east coast of the Red Sea mentioned by Ptdemy (vL 7), probably identical with the DcBAB of Diodgrus Siculus. [Dbbab; Bastius.] [G. W.] GrNARA or GINAlRUS (Klpaposi Zinan), a amall island in the Aegaean sea, NE. of Amoigos, named after the artichoke (ir(ra^a) which it pro- duced. (PHn. iv. 12. s. 22; MeL 11. 7; Athen. ii. p. 70; Golum. X. 235.) CINDEVIA. [Bklus.] GINDYE (KMmi: Eth. Ku^vciff, Herod. v. 118) A place in Gsria, near Bargylia, of which the posi- tion is uncertain. [Baboyua.] [G. L.] GINGA (Cmm»), a river of Hispania Tazraco- neosis, fidling into the Sicoris, a tributary of the Iberus. (Gscs. B. C. i. 48; Lucan. iv. 21, Cmga MQMX.) The Cmcmtet of Pliny (iiL 3. s. 4) imply a town of the same name. [P. S.] GINGFLIA, a town of the Veetini, menti(nied enly by Livy (viiL 29), among the phoes taken by the Roman oodsuI, Junius Brutus, in b. c. 325. Its site is quite uncertain, as well as that of Gutina, mentioDed in the same passage: Romanelli (vd. iiL p. 284) would pbMoe the latter at Chntella near C»- 9iia Aqmutaf and Gingilia at CivUa Raenga, about 5 milea SE. of Anttdonia (Peltuinum). The names Civiia and CwiUtta always denote ancient sites, but the identification is wholty oonjectara]. [E.H.B.] GI'NGULUM (KoTovXor: EtJL Ginguhtnus: CmffoK), a dty of Pioenum, situated in the interior of the province, about 12 miles S. of Aeais, and the aame distance N. of Septempeda (5. Severino). Silius Itallcus alludes to its position oa a loft^ moantaiB, which rendered it a phuie of great strengtli (x. 34). He evidently considered it as having already eiisted as a fortress in the Second Punic War : but the only mention of it in history is during the Givil War between Gaesar and Pompey. H appears to have been rebuilt, and, as it were, Ibonded afresh by T. Labienns shortly before that time : notwithstanding which, it opened its gates to eaesar without a struggle. (Goea. B. C. i. 15 ; Cic. vou I. CIRGEIL 625 ad AtL v^ 11.) It is aftenraids menticiied by Pliny and in the LSber Colooiamm as a municipd town of Picenum : Strabo emneously assigns it to Umbria, from the frontisra of which it was not fiir distant (Strab. v. p 227 ; PUn.iii 13.S. 18; Liber Golon. p. 254 ; OrelL Jnser. 86.) The modem town of CingoU retains the same elevated site with the ancient one: and though but a small place, has preserved its episcopal see without interruption since the fifth centuiy. The coins published by some early numismatio writers with the name of Cingnlnm, and the head of Labienus, are a modem foi^iy. [E. H. B.I GINIUM. [BALBAREa] GINNERETH. [Ghiukkrbth.] GINCXLIS (K/yMXtf) or GIMOllS (K^Aa), according to Strabo (p. 545), and other authorities, a pboe on the coast of Paj^lagonia. '^ After Ga- rambis," says Strabo, ^ come Gimolis and Antid- molis, and Abooi Teichoa, a small town, and Ar- mene." But the order of the phKes is not correct here; for Ginolis is east of Aboni Teichos. A phu» KinJa or Kmoglu, is placed in the maps about half way between Ganunbis (^Kerempe) and Sinope, which is the KumU of Abulfeda, and probably the Ginolis or Gnnolis of the Greek geographers. Mar- dan and Arrian place it east of Aboni Teichos, though they do not agree in the distance. Anti- cinolu was 60 stadia from Ginolis. Both of them were pUces where ships used to stay in their coast- ing voyages; and this is the reasou that these and other like small spots are mentioned by the authore of Pcripli. [G. L.] GINYPS or GI'NYPHUS<K£w^, Herod, iv. 175, 198 ; Kdor^f, Strab. xvii. p. 835 : Cinfo or Wadi Qiuuam)^ a small river of N. Africa, between the two Syrtes, rising, according to Herodotus, in the '* Hill of the Graces " (XapirM^ A^f : probably the extremity of M, Ghuriano), but, according to Pto- lemy, on M. Zuchabbari, much ftirtber inland, and falling into the sea E. of Leptis Magna. The fields through which it flowed were celebrated for goats with very beautiful hair. There was a town ^ the same name at its mouth. (Sil. Ital. iii. 60, iii. 275 ; Viig. Gwrg, ill 312; Martial, vii. 94. 13, viii. 51. 11; Mela, i. 7; Plin. v. 4; Ptol. iv. 3. §§ 13, 20, 6. §11; Scykx.) [P. &] GIRGEII (KtpKoia, Dionys. : Eih, Ktpicaun, Id., Kipjcaitroi, Pol., Girodenses), a town of Latium, situated at the foot of the Mons Girodus (Jfafonto Ctrcetto), on its northern dde, and at a short distance from the sea. No mention is found of a town of the name previous to the reign of Tarquinius Supeibus, who established a colony there, at the same time with that of Signia. (Liv. i. 56 ; Dionys. iv. 63.) But it 'iB probable, from analogy, though we have no express testimony on the subject, that there previously existed an andent settlement on the spot, dther of the Vdsdans, or more probably of the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians. The advantageous situation of the dty for commerce, as well as its podtion as a bulwark against the Vdsdans, are mentioned by Dionydus as the motives that induced Tarqum to settle a cokmy there : and accordingly, we find Gircdi menti<»ed among the maritime and com- mercial towns of Latium in the treaty concluded between the Romans and Garthaginians immediately after the expuldon of Tarquin. (Pol. iii. 22.) It is gfterwards mentioned among the conqueats ascribed to Goriolanus, who is said to have expelled the Roman ookxiista,^ and given it up to the Volsdaav 88