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loos GOBTTNIA. timed bj Plinj (iv 20). Scjiu (p. 19), PtolHnr (iii, 17. § 10), ind UiHocles, who commenced hia tour oF Uie ieluid with thii |iUce. Is the QeiKhbourhood of Gortjna, the tonnti Skuroi is uid lo luve been lanouiided b; poptui which bora fiMiU (Tbnphrait. B. P. iii. 5) ; ind < the banki <£ thg Ledueni wu luotber hiom Sing, which the nutumliati said «u sbiided bj oe-Cnc, wbich retJiitied iU Ibliige thisugb the winter, ud which the people beliered to h»ve co the marriMge-bed of Knrupa and the meUunorphceed Zeiui. (Theapbnat. H.P.i.li;VarT.defleJiiatic. L7; Plin. iii. 1.) The ruimi of "GortTUi, u [hey existed pnrioiulj, have been deftcriind more or lesa diffuselj bj vanoiii wrilera (Belon, Xei Obrerv. da pba Sin^tJ. p. fi; Toamerort, Vogngt du Livant, pp. 5S— M; Po- coizke, Traa. tol, iL pt. i. pp. 252—^355 ; Savaz?, Lettra lur la Grict, ixiii.) ; tbiir itatenKDts, along with the fall Moniit of the Venetian MS. of the IGth centnij, will be faaal in the JfuKim o/ Cluneal AatiquOUi, Tol. ii. pp. ST7- 266. The nts of Gortjna cannot, till the eurvej of the iabnd it conipleted, be made out, bat Mr, Pashley ( Trav. vfil, i. p. 295) hoe placed it near (he modem Ha- gkuat l)h£ka, where the ten Sainta of Gortjna, ac- cording to tradilion, luflered maityrdom in the reign of Deciun (comp. Comelioa, Crela Sacra, tqL i. pp. 156 — 16S}. in this nei|;hbonrhaod ii the cavern which Mr. Cockentl (Walpole, Meaoiri, vol. iL pp. 402—406) haa conjectnred to be the &r-£uned la. byrinth; bnt ai the ancienta. with the exception of Clandian (Sot. Cow. Hon. 63«), who, probablj, Deed the name of the town aa equiTalent to Cretan, are onanimoiu in 6aiDg the legend of the Mmotani ■I CD033I1S, the ideotificatioa muat be pmatned to be pnrelj fannfnl. The coins of Gort/na are of very ■ncient wotkminship. Beaidei the autonomous, there an nainerooB imperial coins, ranging from Angus- tui to HadriuL (Edthel, Tid. ii. p. 312; Sestini, p.$2.)*« [E. B.J.] GOBTY'mA (repi-rla, rop«oy£a: EA-TufSv- ntnit, Steph. B.; rafiSqvfa, Vai^oufla, Ftol. iii. 13. § 39), a pWe in Muedonia which the host of Sitalces plaiiisorC}TrhusandPelU(Thucii. 100). Hence its position must be Itiolied for in the npper valley of the river Alius. (LeJte, Northern Greece, vol. iii, p. 444.) [E. B. J,] GORTTinua [GoBTts.] GORTTS, or GORTYNA CTiprvs, Pans, viii. 27. S 4 ; Tiprvra, Pans. V. 7. § I, Pol. iv. 60. § 3, I'lm. iv. 6. a. ID), a town of Arcedia in the district Ojnuria, situated near the tiver Gortynin) (rop- tJtiot), also called Lusias (Aouffioi) nearer lis ■onrcej, which was a tribntarj of the Alpheiui, and WIS remarkable for the ccldnc^ of its waters. The Inwn b said to hare been founded by Gortys, a son of Sljuipliaius, and ii descrilicd by Paoaaniai as a /^!:/' ■: 'J.i.ir' • GOTHL village in his lame, though it had fiuiualy ben ■ coDsidcanUe dty. Ucet •£ it) inhabitann woe re- moved b> Mf^aloptJis upon the foundatjci of tha latter city iu b. c 371 ; bnt it must have omtinBed to ha a place ef some importance, unce Polybina aays that it was taken by Eiui|udaA, the gmo^ ftf the Ehtiana, m the Social War, h. c 219. At ttBt time it waa inbject to Thelposa. It oucitBind a celdirated temple of AAdepns, built uf PoitelK marble, and ccaitaining itatnes cf AKlepins aid Hygida by Scopai. Cicero allndie to ttiu templi, when he says (da A'ot Dear. iii. 22) that near the river Lusius was the sepolchra of one of the Aoea. lapii, of whom bo reckoned three. Ite mina at* Been npon a height near the village of AtxCkoio^ There are still rem^n^ of its principal gmte Mad of ita walla, conusting of polygonal mafionij. (FaiK V. 7. § 1, viii. 4. §a, riiL27. §4,28. §5 1,2; PoL, Plln. II. «.; Leake, Afona, nJ. ii. p. 24. Ptioponnetiaa^ p. 233 ; Cortina, JVfopoweaiia^ vol. i. p. 349, seq.) GOHYA (r^puo, PtoL vii. 1. g 43 the apital of the small district of Goiyaea (Taifma, PloLiiL 1. § 42), in the coanlry at the foot of the B^^- Kvh, to the M. of the Pagib, on (he bula <£ U* Snutaa, one of the tribatarin rtf the Cufihei, or River of Cibnl. The Snutds ia, doubtlee*, the jb- raitu, « Sauad (Uam'i Karb v. AU-Imdie^y Them is a manifeat connectioa bedrcHi tliia pkre and its territory and the Gniaed and Gnraeoa, aial there can be hardly any doubt that they refa- to the same people and localities. In Ariian (iv. ii), Alexander croest* the Guraens (raupaiei) with eaine dilEcnltj. and passes through the eonnti? ti the Ouraei (Javpauti), on hia way to attack the Asaa- nni or Aspasi (JfRlia) Here the Snaalaa aaJ Ounens ore probably the same, and, aa Focbigs ani^gesle, only other namee for the Choaspea v laonar, nw of the tribatariM of the Copbui <r Cibul river from the north. In another place, Ar- riaa distinguishes the twp rivera; stating that the Cophes Sgwed into Peucdadia, canying irith it iii tributaries, the Malimantus, Soaitna, and Ganaa (riif)^a, Arrian, Ind. c 4). Id Laaaen'a Uap ^- piian a stream called the Canri, to the W. <tf the SiitaitU, which pnhably npreHUta the poaiiiB of this Btitam and people. In the Uatuibbdrata ■re found Sdvasld, Ginri, and Cam^ani — rivox at this part of the country; the secood is no doubt the Graek Guraeus. Pott snggsstii another detivatioo, which seems much leas piobaUe (Ctem. FnnA. p. xlvi.) [V.] GORYAEA [GoRii]. GOltYS (rufiui, Strab. XV. p. 697), ■ small Ion of Bactriana, near the junction of the Choaspcs and Copbes. The passage in Sttabo in which the name occurs is very corrupt, and haa led to various md- tnga, The older editions read wapi rotptMAf wdAiv, and hence made Gorydale the name of ihe pUce. The later ones of C<Bay, Grmkord. and kramer have vofik Tiipvii £XAifr nAir, which leHaa to be a preferable reading, and gives Gorya fir the name of the place. The eimilariiy of the soond, and the neighbonrhood of die pk.ce, anggeiit a cdu uection between it and Gorya. [V.] GOTHI. GOTONES, GOTHONES, GUTaE, GUTTONES (rirfloi, rirvo., roDrSBi, Ti/imm), a tribe of Gcimans, noticed even by Pytbew of Msrsralles. in Ids accolint of the oabts of the Baltic. (Plin.ixivi!, 2.) According to him, Ihfy dwelt about the Aestuariuni Ocsani Ucutinoinai