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 GEBGOVIA. the Diiul ligiul of baing fHandi. The E bsng BOW hud pmisd, ond, btmng hot furtj-iii ecnturioni, ware drivon down tbo moonUin. Tbo tsnlh, Cacui'a ramuHM legion, chocked Iho hot pareuit {< the onemj, uid Iho cobarta of T. Seitiiu also coma to the roliet When the Ronuuia got dovn to the pUIn the; Tacad «t»iit, and etood, read; to raiwir tha fight 1 bat Vertdngetnix lod hii meD back to their entnnrlimenls. Caesar loot nmr TOO men ID thie affair. Short!/ after he left the place Tor the oountry o( the Aedui, and again cmaud the filter, whicfa confinna the fact, if it needs coi^rmalion, that GerfToria wan in the hill eonntrj on the neat side of the AUier. (5. G. tIL 53.) Tbsre is nothing to b* got fran the other ancient wiitcn who mention GciTaTii. (Strah. p. ISl; Dion Cast. i1. 35.) D'AdtIIIo CNotia, >fc.) gurt is part a. ■ the jj MpgnTW : — rtlS'niTTiniil « me mobniain is a llat, somcKtiat more than an English mile in length from eaat lo nest, and about one-third of a mile in width. EicaTsiions hara laid open the foandationi of walk Etrmglv liuilt, wells lined with rament, and p^remenlB. Broken otensils, medaln, and nd pot- tsi7 hare also been fonnd. Gallic medals, some gold and ailter, bnt most of bronic, ore picked np bbere, when the earth is atirred for cnltiTatioo. llDdonbladlj there was onca a town here, ami it waa prebabl; inbablted after the Roman conqnest ; tlioogh Angnato nematnm, or Clerraiml, ma the capital of iha ArrerniTinlie Bonwn penod. [Auoun' The plan of OaigoTia is fttm Carina (_IUctieil irAmtiquilf4, tom.T. |d. 101). Tbeic ia also a plan of the place in Paiumot {Mdnoirti Giog. *ur qiidq<taAmtiqmti»dtUlGaillt,i.^^'). Walcke- noer [Ciog., ^. toI. i. p. 311, note) aaja that the plan of Pasumot la copied frnm thai of Cajlni, but Willi tba addhioD of iwo w Ihne names. He adds .GERIZIH. 991 that (ha cammentarj of Cajlni and that of Pain- mot on the plan of Gercoiia are both verj good ; but the reaearchea, and prob^lr Ibe opinions conlainad in tham, are (lie propert; of Uaason, prior of St Andi^, who read a ilcmoirt on this subject to the liletarj aocietj of CJemonL The plan shows (he Ptifl de JumI, Begaratad from the hill of Gergoria bj a depiTsaion. The hill lo the vest of the Agr de Jtutat la that from wbich Scrape's flair ii taken. On tba aoDth is a stream which flowii into Allier, and Cuaur'i camp must hare been near Another stream Aows on the north side of the Fmi da Jvatat and of the mounliin of l^rpfoiia; which will explain Cae^r'a remark about the chanca itling off prt of the enemy's WBlar. The plan s a daacent from ibe mountain of Gergovia on the tiW., near RimJignat, and aootlier on tba Ski., Merdogn*. The high ground above Btmagmil t to be the pmnt i£ Csaear'a fiipied attack. D'Antilla sajs (but the mountain of (}ergi>via is called Podium Uaidoniae in a document of the fbar- teenth centnrj, and there is now a place called Jfcr. I or itardogne, at the fact ol the monntain of Ge'rKorta. between it and La Scda. He lakes tlia Pug dt Hoalon, doe south of Qercoria, to be llia hill which Caesar got poesesaion of before be attempted lo Borprisa Gergovia. Ukart {Gallien. p. 399) concluded that Gergoria waa SW.ol the ABier; but that is all that be has done. it wDuU hardlj be worth while noticing Reichani'a absurd attempt to fix tlie poailion of Gergovia, if it had not bean accepted bj one editor of Caeaar (Herrog), who, knowmg nothing of geogrm|Aj, has added lo his edition of Cawar'a Gallic War a map bj B^chard, in which Gergovia is placed on Iha Loire, east ot OrUimt. ft. [G. L.] GERIZIU or GARIZIM (FofiiCir, ropifsfr). The general ailuation ai>d appearance of Mount Geriiim are described, and its poailion identified, in lbs article Ebai. J<eepbUB calls it tha highest of all the mountains of Samaria (^AnL xi. 8. § 3), and nni- formlj placea it m the immediate ridnitj ofShecbnn, m agreement with holj Scripture (e. g. AnI. r. 1. § 19, zL 8. g 6, xiiu 9. g 1), so that tha ohsam- tkm of St. Jerome, " Samaritan! artalnntnr bos duo monleajuata Neapolim «se. Bed Tehemenler errant," — as thoogh onlj the Samaritans asaigned them that poailion, — ia inexplicable. That Ceriiini was re- garded with apecial leneratioo b; the S to the enctiou of the temple, b; which Lue peipctualad, cannot ha doubted. The cii which led lo the erection of the temple are men- tioned bj Joeepbos (AiU. li. S. § S). Manssaeh, the brother of Jaddna the high priest, hating married Kicaso, tha daughter of Sanballat, was mjuired bj the Jews either to diToreo hia wife, or lo withdraw from [he ptiesllj office. Hia father-in-law persuaded him to retain his wife, on the prvmise that ha wonld pTDcara permisBion to eiect on Mount Geriiim a temple aimilar to thai at Jemaalem. This par- miaaion he obtained from Alexander the Gmt, while engaged in the ait^ of Tjre, and its enclion cuald scarcel; baTe been eomplatcd when SanbalUt died (§ 4). From this time fmward aacrificw were offered at this lempla lo Iha Must High God, until the Sa- marilana, in order to escape a participation in tba penecnlionsof tbeJewa under AnliodiUB Epiphanes, reqneeltd tf him that tbidr temple might bo dedi- cated to Jupiter Uelleniua, aoconling to Josephua (Jut. lii. 5. g 5), but. according to llie anlhor of Ihe tecotd book of Vnoeateei (ri. S), followed bf