. calledBononia, whence itsmodern name ( 102; Suet. ; Mel. iii. 2; Am-mian. xx. 9 ; 21). Gessius Floras.[Flobtjs.] Geta, Septlmiue,brother of Caracalla, Battle of Gods and Giants. (From a vase painting of the end of :th cent. , now at Berlin.) whom he was assassinated, Gerraicus, a bay on the W. side of the PersianGulf, 2,400 stadia (240 geog. miles = 4° of lat.)from the mouth of the Tigris. The city wasfive Roman miles in circuit. The inhabitants,called Gerraei (Teppaioi), were said to have beeno
. calledBononia, whence itsmodern name ( 102; Suet. ; Mel. iii. 2; Am-mian. xx. 9 ; 21). Gessius Floras.[Flobtjs.] Geta, Septlmiue,brother of Caracalla, Battle of Gods and Giants. (From a vase painting of the end of :th cent. , now at Berlin.) whom he was assassinated, Gerraicus, a bay on the W. side of the PersianGulf, 2,400 stadia (240 geog. miles = 4° of lat.)from the mouth of the Tigris. The city wasfive Roman miles in circuit. The inhabitants,called Gerraei (Teppaioi), were said to have beenoriginally Chaldaeans who were driven out ofBabylon. (Strab. p. 766 ; Plin. vi. 147.) Gerrhus (Teppos), a river of Scythia, flowing 212. For details see Cabacalla. Getae, a Thracian people, called Daci by theRomans. Herodotus and Thucydides placethem S. of the Ister (Danube) near its mouths ;but in the time of Alexander the Great theydwelt beyond this river and N. of the Tri-balli. They were driven by the Sarmatiansfurther W. towards Germany. (Hdt. iv. 93 ;. Athene and Giant. (From great altar at Pergamum. Berlin.) Athene grasps Enceladus by the hair, while herserpent (not easily distinguishable from the of the other giants on the frieze) has coiled round her left is Victory ; below, Ge with uplifted hand entreats for her children. through a country of the same name, was abranch of the Borysthenes, and flowed into theHypacyris, dividing the country of the NomadScythians from that of the Royal Scythians(Hdt. v. 53 ; Ptol. iii. 5, 12). Gerunda (Gerona), a town of the Ausetaniin Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road fromTarraco to Narbo in Gaul. Thuc. ii. 96; Strab. p. 294.) For their laterhistory see Dacia. Gigantes (rtydvTes), the giants. Accordingto Homer, they were a gigantic and savagerace of men, dwelling in the distant W. in theisland of Trinacria, near the Cyclopes, andwere destroyed on account of their impiety.(Od. vii. 59, 206, x. 120; cf. Paus. viii. 2
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