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 GESSOBIENSES. eoMt* OcnsUntano pused over from Britain to Bononia, and this was probably the regular landing- place ftom Britain since the time of Claadins. It appeals, indeed, as the naral station on this coast, for Caraosius was set over the fleet at Bononia to protect the Belgic and Annoric shore against the Franks and Saxons. (Entrop. ix. 21.) There are no Roman bnildings at Bouhgne. The tower, already mentioned, is entirely gone. It was no donbt a Soman work. Within the present cen- tnry Roman medals and tombs have been discovered at Boulogne, and other remains. [6. L.] GESSORIENSES, a cwUas Laiina, in the con- renins of Tanaoo and the province of Hispania Tanaoonenais. (Plin. iiL 3. s. 4.) Ukert oonjectnres that their city stood in the district between the Siooris and Nucaria, where inscriptions and ooins have been fonnd bearing the names Aesonensxs and JBSSOXEiniis. (Muratori, Nov, Thet, p^ 1021, nos. 2, 3 ; Spon. Mite. Enid. AtU. p. 188 ; Celkr. NoL Orb. voL L ppi 118, 1 19 ; Ukeit, vol. ii. pt 1. p. 452.) [P. S.] GETAE. [Dacia.] GETHSE'MANE. [Jerusalem.] GEVI'NI (IVutyoQ, mentioned by Ptolemy as a population of European Sarmatta (iii. 5. § 24) lying to the north of the Carpiani, and the south of the Bodini (B«9iyol). BuchowvUa is as likely a place as any for these GevinL The name of this locality is generally deduced from BuchssBeeck^iree, so that itsssthe land of the beeches. But the word Bvch is German; whereas Buchowinia is Slavonic. Now if vro aUow oniselves to suppose the root geom to be a geographical term (L e. the name of a tract of land), we have a better derivation. No habit is commoner with the Slavic populations than to prefix to a noun denoting a locidity the preposititm po (5o)ss ofk Hence Po-morama is the oountij on the tea: a population on the Elbe (in Shivonic, Laba) was called the Po-UAmgi, As examples of this kind may be multiplied, the hypothesis that the J9ucAot0- M*a is the oountiy of the popuktion on the Gevin (jto-gevin) becomes allowable. [B. G. L.] GEZEB (Ta(4p), mentioned in Joth. xvL 10 as a dty of the Philistines, tributaiy to the Israelites of the tribe of Ephraim. (Cam^^ Judget, i. 29.) It was taken and burnt by Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and given to his son-in-law Solomon, who rebuilt it (1 Kingty ix. 15 — 17.) In the last passage it is joined with Bethoron the nether, with which it also oocnn in Josh. xvi. 3, where the order shows that it was situated between BeUioron and the coast. Consistently with this. Gazer or Gazara is placed by Eosebius and St. Jerome 4 miles north of Nlcopolis [Emmaus, 2.] {Onomatt t. v.) It is probably iden- tical with the Gadaris of Strabo, in the neighbourhood of Jamnia. otherwise called Gadara. (Beland, Palaett, pp. 434. 678—680.) ^ [G. W.] GIBEAH (LXX. TaSad: Eth. TaSaenns), called also Gibeah of Benjamin (1 Sam. xiil 2) and Gibeah of Saul (1 Sam. xi. 4), VojSaBooutitkfi by Josephus, who in one pkce states its distance 30 stadia from Jerusalem {B. J. v. 2. § 1) and in another only 20 (^Ant T. 2. § 8). It obtained a bad notoriety in Teiy early times, in the matter recorded in Judget, xix. XX., which resulted in its entire destruction. It was the native ph^e of Sanl. (1 Sam. x. 26, xi. 4.) It was obviously nigh to Ramah (Judgetf xix. 13), and on the high rooid to Kablouse between Jerusalem and Bamah. (Comp. Joseph. B. J. L c.) This makes against its Identity with the modem village of Jeba V, ^ ^ i :. - -^'. • //- 35i y, '' :; < GIGONIS PROM. loot whkh no doubt marks the site of the a&cient Geba, situated as it is on the direct road between Michmash and Jerusalem. (See ItaiaK, x. 28, 29.) Ramah and Gibeah of Saul were not in the line of march of the invading army from the north, but from their con- tiguity to it naturally shared in the panic. Gibeah then must be sought to the west of the modem J^xiy and on the direct Kablouse road ; and there is a remarkable conical hill, conspicuous from Jerusalem, close to the high road, about the stated distance from the city, which appears to have been occupied by an ancient city, as its modem name indicates. Accordingly, in consistency with the above notices, though inconsistently with himself. Dr. Robinson decides for TvlcH-tl-FuU (more properly TetUd- Full) as the representative of Gibeah of Saul. CThe-» ological Review^ vol. iii. p. 645.) [G. W.] GIBEON (LXX. rotftti^y: Eth. TaHoMP^lntit^ the metropolis and nyal city of the Hivites, strongly fortified.; whose inhabitants, having deceived Uie Israelites under Joshua, were allowed to live under bondage, with their fellow-citizens in Chephirah^ Beeroth, and tHijath-jearim : together with which, it was assigned to the tribe of Benjamin. (Joth. ix., x. 2, xviii. 25.) It was a priestly city {Joth. xxi. 17), which may account for the tabernacle being placed there, prior to its removal to the temple prepared for it at Jerusalem. (1 Chron. xvi 1. 37—40, xxi. 29 ; 2 Chron. i. 2—6 ; 1 Kingt, viu. 4, &c) " Jo* sephus, in one place, gives the distance of Gabaon from Jerusalem at 50 stadia, and in another at 40 stadia. (B. j; u. 19. § 1, AnL vii. 1 1. § 7.) Ense* bius places Gibeon 4 Roman miles west (^ Bethel, while the corresponding article of Jerome sets it at the same distance on the east. (Onomatt t. v. To- €awf .) The text of Jerome is here probably oor- rapted." (Robinson, Bib, Bet, vol il p. 137. n. 2.) Its site is fixed by JotK x. 10, 1 1, where the Philistines, on their rout at Gibeon, retreat to the plain by Bethoron. (Camp. Joseph. B.J. ii. 19. § 1.) AcoofdJngly, on the camel-road between Jaffa and Jerusalem, by way of Lydda and the two Bethorons, we find a modem village named el-J(by situated on a rocky eminence, and exhibiting traces of an ancient city. It is distant from Jerusalem about 2^ hours, by the nearest route, which would equal 60 stadia. It has a fine fountain of water, which dlBcharges itself into a cave excavated so as to form a large subterranean reservoir, near which are the remains of another open reservoir, about 120 feet in length by 100 in breadth, doubtless intended to receive the superfluous waters of the cavern. (Robinson, BU>. Ret. vol. iL pp. 136 — 138.) This may be the Pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. ii. 13), called in Jeremiah " the great waters in Gibeon " (xli. 12). ^ [G. W.] GIBLITES. [BrsLOS.] GIFIL (Jomand. de Get. 22 ; Gilpit, Geog. Rav. a river of Dacia, which has not at present been iden- tified. [E.B.J.] GIGLITJS (rb TiyXuv 6poSy vulgo Ttyior), a mountain in the interior of Cyrenaica. (Ptol. iv. 3. § 20.) [P. S.] GIGCNIS PROM, (riyvpis tucpa, Etym. Mag. y t, V. 'H7c«f/f, Ptol. iii. 13. § |3), a promontory on if the coast of the Crossaea, in Macedonia, with a / town GiooNUS (Jiyttwos^ Steph. B.), to which the ' Athenian force, which had been employed against Perdiccas, marohed in three days fromBeraea. (Thuc. i. 61.) It appears, frtnn the order of the names in Herodotus (viL 123), that it was to the S. of Cape Aeneium, ^e great Karalniimli} hence its situatioo