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1008 ' GIG0KU& was neurl j tliat of Cape ApaumL (Leake, North- em Greece^ toL iii. p. 452.) [E. B. J.] GIGONUS. [GiooNu Prom.] 6IGUBRL [AfiTURES.] GIHON. [Jrrusaleii.] GILBOA MONS (rcA€ovi ^por), a low monntam district to the south-east of the plain of Eedraeloo, sitoated in the tribe of Issachar, iD&mons for the defeat of the Israelites nnder Sao] and Jonathan, bj the Philistine hosts. (1 Sam, zxviii. 4, xzxi.) Fnxn this &ct they are called 6pi^ AXXo^^X«y (alienige- namm montes) bj Easebins, who phices them six miles frtxn ScythopoUs, where a large village named Gelbos (rtk€ov$) existed in his day. This village still exists, nnder the name of JelbdUj and serves to identify the mountain tract which it ocaipies as the Mount Gilboa of Scripturs. The road from Beisan (Scythopolis) to Jenii passes near this village, and over the mountains. (Robinson, Bib. Ret, vol. iiL pp. 157, 170.) The village of Jeffrun, however, "lies south of Takooah, on the western declivity of Ifonnt Gilboa, and not on the east side, as it is marked in Robinson's map." (Dr. Schultz, in Williams, Holff City, voL i. p. 469.) [G. W.] GILEAD. [pALiUSSTlNA.] GILGAL (rdA7aAa,LXX; ToKy^wadraXydy, Euseb.), the first staticm of the Israelites after crossing the Jordan, and, therefore, between Jericho and that river, "in the east border of Jericho." (^Joth, iv. 19.) It was here that the twelve stones taken out of ^e bed of the Jordan were deposited, that the first passover was celebrated in the promised land, and the ordinance of circumcision renewed, from which last circumstance the place derived its name. " This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from oflTyou ; wherefore, the name of the place is called GiJgal (i. e. roUing) unto this day." (v. 9.) It seems to have been the head-quarters of Joshua during the subjugation of the land (ix. 6, X. 6. 43), and was prol»bly invested with a sacred character from that time forward : for there Samuel judged, in his annual circuit (1 Sam. vii. 16); there he publicly inaugurated the kingdom (xi. 14, 15) ; and there he commanded Saul to await his arrival, when he should come to offer sacrifice (x. 8. xiii. 4, &c.). According to Eusebius, it was 2 miles from Jericho (^Onomast. ». v.); but Josephns, with greater show of accuracy, places it 10 stadia from Jericho, and 50 from the Jordan iAnt.y, 1. § 4). It was a desert place in the time of Eusebius, but regarded with great veneration by the inhabitants of the country. No traces of an ancient city can now be discovered between the site of Jericho, which is etearly identified, and the river. It may be doubted whether the Gilgal mentioned in 2 Kingt^ ii. 1, where there was a school of the prophets (iv. 38), is identical with the one above noticed. Eusebius alludes to another in the vicinity of Bethel («. ©.), whose site is still marked by the large modem village of Jilgtliay to the left of the Nablus road, about 2 hours north of Bethel. (Robinson, Bib. Res. vol. iii. 81, 82.) This is possibly the Gilgal mentioned in Deut. xi. 29, 30, in the vicinity of Mounts Ebal and Gerizim; a notable difficulty, which Eusebius and St Jerome propose to solve by transferring these mountains to the banks of the Jordan. Another modem village of the same n.ame near the coast, a little south of Antipatris, seems to indicate the site of a third town of the same name. Dr. Robinson thinks that " tiie Gilgal of Nehemiah^ xii. 29 and of 1 Mcuic. ix. 2 may be referred to the place so GLAHOIL called in the WBBtem plain, near AntipRim. (BSb^ Re». vol. ii. p. 287. n. 3.) [G. W.] GILIGAMMAE (^cXo^^l^la^ Herod, hr. 169; riXryc^ai, Steph. B. $, 9.), a lihyaa people, vlw dwelt originally on the N. coast of LibyB, W. of the Adtrmachidar, as fiff as the bland of ApintMfiaea, W. of the port of Gyrene; but mn afterwwrda poshsd bock by the Gredc settkrs to the inner psrts «f Marmarica and Cyrenaica. [P. &] GINDANES (rlySorcf or rirSorct), a Ul^m people, who dwelt W. of the Magak, and S. of the Tripolis in the Begio Syrtica; and of whose cust om s some curious particulars are given bj Uerodotos (iv. 176 ; Steph. B. j. •.). [P. S.] GINDARUS (r(v8apo>), a ci^ of the Syrian dis- trict of Ctrrhestxca ; an acropolis, and leaort of robbers, according to Strabo (p. 751.) Ptokaij, however, places a city of this name in the distriei of Seleucis (v. 15). [G.W.] GIR FL. ; GIRA METROPOLIS [Libya.] GIRBA. [MRKCfZ.! GIRGASHITES (r^frycfrcubi), one of the sercs idolatrous. natitHis descended finnn Canaan {G^m. x. 16), and dispossessed by the childxen of Isnd (Joih. xxiv. 1 1). They do not occur in the IJats in Exodut^ iiL 8, 17, or Deuteronomy, xx. 17; nor is there any indication of their position in PafaotiBc. Dr. Wells supposes them to have been a &mily tf the tribe of the Hivites; as in nine ont of ten pbocs where the nations of Canaan are reckoned tlxy are omitted, while in the tenth, where thej are ia- serted, the Hivites are omitted. [G. W.} GIRGIRI M. (rh Tlfrytpi f^ Tlpyvpis Spas), a mountain of Libya Interior, above the Begio Syitiea, containing the sources of the river Ciktfb. (PtoL iv. 6. §§11, 17.) It is probably the Mods Gyri of Pliny (v. 5) and the G&atiarum Coujr of Be- rodotus. [P. &] GITANAE, a town of Epiras, described by Ijry as being near Corcyra, and about 10 miles fran the coast. (Liv. xlii. 38.) It is not mentioned by aay other ancient writer, and it has therefore been ooo- jectured that the word is a corrapt form of Chyton, which Ephorus spoke of as a place in Epinis odo- nised by the Clazomenii. (Stei^. B. a. v. Xmr; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. L p, 76.) GITTITES(rc0arof), the ethnic (tfGatb. (%Sn». vi. 10, 11, xxi. 19.) [Gath.] GLANDIMA'RIUM. [Gallajecia.] GLANIS. [CiJkNis.] GLANNIBANTA, in Britain, the form in the NotitiaofClanoventum. [Clanovrktuii.] [R.GX.] GLA19UM (FAm^ : EA, Glanicus), is one of the five towns which Ptolemy (ii. 10. § 15) memiaBS in the country of the Salyes in Gallia Narboneosis. Pliny (iii. 4) enumerates it among the Oppida L»- tina of Karbonensis, and calls it Glannm Livii, a name due, as it is supposed, to Livius Drusoa, wlw settled a colony here about b.c4. Glannm is placed in the Antonine Itin. on a reed froni Cabellio {CavaiOon) to Arelate (Arke): it is 16 H.P. from Cabellio to Glannm, and 12 from Glanum to Ema- ginum. [Ernagutuh.] The Table has the aame route and the same names, — but it makes 12 M. P. fnnn Cabellio to Glannm, and 8 from Glannm to Emaginum ; and these distances appear to be correct. Glanum is the village of SL /Sent, wbidi is proved by an inscription found then with the woi^ ** Reipubllcae Glanicorum " on iL The exact site of Ghnum is above a mile south of Si. Remi, near which there are at present, in a good state of