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Flavum, anciently reckoned the eastern mouth of the Rhine, now called the _Ulie_, and is a passage out of the Zuyder Sea into the North Sea Gab[)a]li, an ancient people of Gaul, inhabiting the country of _Givaudan_. Their chief city was Anduitum, now _Mende_, G. vii. 64; they join the general confederacy of Vercingetorix, and give hostages to Luterius, G. vii. 7 Gadit[=a]ni, the people of Gades, C. ii. 18 Gal[=a]tia, a country in Asia Minor, lying between Cappadocia, Pontus, and Paphlagonia, now called _Chiangare_ Galba Sergius, sent against the Nantuates, Veragrians, and Seduni, G. iii. 1; the barbarians attack his camp unexpectedly, but are repulsed with great loss, iii. 6 Galli, the Gauls, the people of ancient Gaul, now _France_; their country preferable to that of the Germans, G. i. 31; their manner of attacking towns, ii.6; of greater stature than the Romans, 30; quick and hasty in their resolves, iii.8; forward in undertaking wars, but soon fainting under misfortunes, 19; their manners, chiefs, druids, discipline, cavalry, religion, origin, marriages, and funerals, vi.13; their country geographically described, i.1 Gall[=i]a, the ancient and renowned country of Gaul, now _France_. It was divided by the Romans into-- Gallia Cisalpina, Tonsa, or Togata, now _Lombardy_, between the Alps and the river Rubicon: and-- Gallia Transalpina, or Com[=a]ta, comprehending _France, Holland, the Netherlands_: and farther subdivided into-- Gallia Belg[)i]ca, now a part of _Lower Germany_, and the _Netherlands_, with _Picardy_; divided by Augustus into Belgica and Germania__ and the latter into Prima and Secunda Gallia Celt[)i]ca, now _France_ properly so called, divided by Augustus into Lugdun[=e]nsis, and Rothomagensis Gallia Aquitan[)i]ca, now _Gascony_; divided by Augustus into Prima, Secunda, and Tertia: and-- Gallia Narbonensis, or Bracc[=a]ta, now _Languedoc, Dauphiny_, and _Provence_ Gallograecia, a country of Asia Minor, the same as _Galatia_ Gar[=i]tes, a people of Gaul, inhabiting the country now called _Gavre, Gavaraan_ Garoceli, or Graioc[)e]li, an ancient people of Gaul, about _Mount Genis_, or _Mount Genevre_ others place them in the _Val de Gorienne_; they oppose Caesar's passage over the Alps, G. i. 10 Garumna, the _Garonne_, one of the largest rivers of France, which, rising in the Pyrenees, flows through Guienne, forms the vast Bay of Garonne, and falls, by two mouths, into
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