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 from Teg«*. to pen.l -^ mto the lonllic I v>I]e7 of tbo EuroluL (Pdjb. y. 20.) It is >1h> meiitianed on uvAhar occuioD by Fnlybini (It. 36). Tbe mn- dent bum ia pnliiiblj ttpresoib'd bj thi HeUenio rBinaiDs st Ltfi^iidiia, which ia pmbablj ■ cannptiDti of the undent nimo. Ths dioCrict math li Lym- piada ifl called (yiympo-hhAriaj vhicb niune ivould ■ana to indieita Uut one cJ iLe maniitijni in the neigbbonrtiood bore the Dame of Olfmpoi in utcieat timea. Leike indeed esqjscturee that Thuiaia wis the uideiit local form of 'OKviala, lod conaequentlj that Ignfiida and (/tsmpth^ASria mij both origi- nite in tlte nine ucwdC duim Oljnipu haTing Ihe local funn of GlympU. (Boblsje, RecktrditM, 4c- p. 362 ; Lenke, POopomaiaea, p. 369 ; CnitioB, Pdopomaot, vol. it p. 303.) GNOSUS, GNOSSUS. [Cliosiig.] GOBAEUM (Jitaar ixpat), is placed byPlolemr (ii. 8. § I) in Gsllia Lngdoneiuis, and it ia the most watarn pan of Galiu. lyAntiUs eondodes that it is Finiitire or MiM, commmljr called Pottle St. MatiiBu. It ia certainlr ecme pcdnC between the PoMe dt Penmarclie and the jdice wbero the French c«at tams eut. Gcasallin and pdms make it Ihe ca^ie on which lUndi the light of Aadieme, azid which terminates on the east the rotd III GolMMtiBL In iDch a cue u this the name heljiB to a probable CDnclnsion. [G. L.] GOBANNIO.in Britain. mentioned in the lath Iti- neraiy, p[ijh«W7=Aber-5aBe»iqF in Wales. [R.G.L.] GOGANA CritTovo, AirJin, Ind. c 3B), aimaU place on the cuut of Penis, to which the fleet of Nearchni came, at the month of a amall stntun or torrent called the Areon. It ia now called Kontun. (Vipcent, t'oj. o/A'whAui, toI. L p. 385.) [V.] GOGABE'NE (Ttrrainirii), a canton of Armenia, which SCnbo (li p. S28) places to the N. of the Gjnu. It ia the same as the Aimenian Kouiar or JEiwiorJfA, and is repreaenled b; the modem AkhiJUkhai, Ijing between Gtria, Imiretia, Geor- gia, and the rirer Jorik. St. Martin (Af«n. nip lArmtnie, vol. I p. 81) corrects the reading 'Ofa- ^rol in Stephaam of BTuntiiun (i. v.) into Tvyo- mnl. [E. B. J.] ^ QOLQI (roJiToJ ; EA. ViKyutt, ToA-ylev I"""^ iytilt, Stepb. B.), a (own of Cjpnis, famoos fiir the .worship of Aplinidile (Tbncr. xr. 100; LycoiAr. "589; Catnll. uin. IS, ffupL Pd.tl TheL M), . w^icb, according to legend, bad existed here erm before its inlrcduction at Fiphoa by Agapenor. (Fansan- riii. 6. § 3.) The town is mailimied bj Pliay (>. S5); but its position is not known. (En- gel, Kyprot, ToL L p. 145, vol. ii. p. 31.) [E.B.J.] GOLGOTHA MONS. [Jebi'sai-bii.J GOLOE. [Cabylk.] GOMPUI (.UnpiK, Strab. ii. p «37; Steph. B. (.«.: £tA. roM^i, ruju^tfi, Oomphenaii), a town of Uistiseetis in Thessalj, sitosted upon a tribntary of the Pennua, and near ihe fronlien of Atbamaiiia and Dol^pia. lla poGition made it a place of biatori- cal importance, since it gnarded two of the chief puses into the Tbeesalian plains : " that of AAwfti, distant two miles, which was the exit from Dolopia, and the pass of Porlei, at a distance of four nula, which led iaio Atliamanla, and throogh that pro- ■rtnce to Ambracla." (Leaie, Korlhem Greece, rel. iF, p. 581.) In the war against Philip, Amynander, king of the Athamanee, in co-operatlcn with the Bo- man eonsnl Plamininus, haling descended Iron the latter paaa (" FancM angoatae, qnM ab Athanuuiia Theasaliam dirimuit''), fint took Pbcca, a town lying between Uie pass and GonjJii, and tben Gesn- phi iudf, B. c 198. The poaseanco of thii jdu* was of great Importance to Flanuninna, um it se- cured him a commnnication with the AmbcaciaB. gulf, fnm wbidi he deiiTed hia aupplics. The nma inim Gomphi to Ambiacia ia deacribed bj Lin- aa very short but eitronelj difficult. The captore al Gomphi was followed by the aniretlder of the lowm namwl Aigenta, Pherinam, Thimanun, Ijiinae, Stimo, and Laoifms, the pcnticQ of which ii qoira uncertain. (Lir. xxxiL 14, 15.) When AtluSBnia rerolted from Philip In B. c 189, he manJied bita their oountiy by the abore-mentitand pas, but waa obhged to retire with heavy loss. (Lit. xxxtS. S.) Then can be no doubt that it was by the sane route that Ihe Roman consul Q. Uirdns Pbillppoa marched from Ambracia into Thessaly in b. & 1G9, (Lit. iliT. I.) In the campaign betwocn Caesar and Pompey in b. c 48, the inluLbitanIa uf Gonphi, having heard of Caesar's repulse at Dynitachisiii, shut their gatea against him, when lie airired at tiie place from Aeginium ; but he took the place by aa- sanit in a few boon. Caeoar, in hia accoont cf these erenta, deacribes Gomplii aa the " Gret towD ia Thessaly to tboee coming fmn Epioa.' (Caen. " " " aOi Appan, B. C. iL 64; Dieo Cast. iIL SI.) Tbe Greek geographer Ueletins placed Gosmpld tt SUigu4, bnt, from an inicriplico found at SUiymt, it ia clear that this is the ule of A^ininm. [AiGi- HIUM.] Leake, howeier, Itaa shown that Gsai(lii ia lepraiented by EpukopS, which ia the nama tt an nncnltivatcd height Ijnng along the left bank <t the ami, at a distance of two at three mbea front the mnunlains. On this height then an etill bbd* temaina of the ancient town. The modem nine is owing to the fact of Gomphi having been a tHabe^ rie in later times. (Hlerod.pL 643.) Leake plana Phtca at a small vilbge called fiietn, midway be- tweeu the hill of Epiihopt and Ifaa peas of lirit*. (Leake, NorAem Grttca. vol. iv. p 519. acq.) GOUGALAE. [Libta.] GO-NGYLUS. [SEU.aa*.] GONNO-CONDYLON. [Coitotixo..] GONNUS or GONHI (Tinei, Uetod., Stab.; ri(»ai,Polyb.,Steph.a: £ti. r^rnsi, alao Ti^rwi, ronTOi, Steph. B.a.ii.), an andent town gf iha Perrhaebi in Thessaly, which derived its name, ac- cording to the later Greek critics, from GosuMUi mentioned in the Iliad. (/Hii. 7*S: Staph. B.I.*; rotraf.) Ite poaitim made it one of the m«( int. portsnt placta in the north of Tbeasaly. It SUfi on the northern side of the Peneins, near the entraoca of the only tvro passes by which an enemy an ptne- trate into Thessaly from the n«th. Tbe calebnted Tale of Tempe bttnm to narrow at Gonni; asd the pass acrces Mt. Olympus a little to the west ef Tempe leads into Thessaly at GranL It was by the latter ronte that the army of Xeriea mtend Tfa(«EBly. (Herod, vii. 128, 173.) The poailni << Gonni wilh tnepect to Tempe ia ckarl7 ab^vg by