G E P 



G E R 



Georgiak BMc. 



GeoRCJIAN" Mcni. 

 Afia, who follow the rule of vSt. Bafil 



gained a complete viaory over the Burg^indians about the 

 GEORGIANA, in Geography, a name originally given year 245 ; and Faftida, dated with this vidory, laid wafti 

 a tra£l of country in the province of Maine, in North the territories of the Gotl-.s, whofc fovertiTn Oftrogoth' 



See BiRi.K. but perhaps not one From the Lombards, who were after- 



and A'^«/!x, are religious of Georgia, in ward; mailers of Italy. Under their king Faftida, ther 



" '"" " ff-:^" j' ' 



afte 



, 5.. Oftrogotha 



rehired to grant them land for their accommodation. Being 

 defeated by the Goths, they afterwards joined them, and 

 other northern nations, in the in-uption which they made 

 with their united forces into the <;mpire in the fecond year 

 of the reign of Claudius ; but they were defeated by that 

 pnnce with great daughter. In ' the year 279 Probus 



to 



America. 



GEORGIC, fomething that relates to the culture or 

 tilling of the ground. 



yiie word is borrowed from tlie Latin gcoigicus ; and that 

 of the Greek '/Fi-jfixo , of yr,, terra, earth; and fjya^oacti, 

 opcro, I •work, labour, of f^yv;, opus, ivork. 



The ~ 



Georgics of Virgil are four books compofed by that granted them lands in Thrace, upon promife of their quiet 



poet on tlie fubjea of agriculture. fubm-fTton ; but whilR the emperor was engaged in war in 



GEORGIEV, in G^ogrdphy, a town of Ruflla, in the go- the Eaft, they feized the neighbouring provinces, and were 



vernment of Caucafus ; 32 miles W.N.W. of Ekaterinograd. cut off in great numbers by Probus after his return. St. 



GEORGINA, in Botiuiy, fo named by Willdenow in Jerom mentions tiie Gepidx among the other nations of 



honour of Profeffor Georgi ; fee Georgia and Dahlia. 

 We have retained the latter name, given by Cavanllles, for 

 this fine genus, becaiife it has been unlverfally adopted in 

 this country, where the various fpecies feem likely to come 

 into general cultivation. A change in fuch a cale not only 

 fhocks vulgar prejudices and illiterate indolence, but is ma- 

 terially inconvenient 



Barbarians, who, in 407, invaded Gaul, and overran its 

 provinces. Attila afterwards fubdued them, and in 451 

 they ferved under him in his famous expedition into Gaul. 

 Upon the death of Attila, the Gepidx fnook off the yoke 

 under the conduft of tlieir king Ardaric, who obtained a 

 complete victory over the Hunns ; in confequence of wiiich 

 the Gepidie not only recovered their ancient liberty, but 



GEORGITZ, m Geography, a town of Walachia ; 18 gained poffefnon of ancient Dacia, N. of U'.e Danube 



miles N.N.E. of Buchareft 



GEOSCOPY, a kind of knowledge of the nature and 

 qualities of the ground or foil, gained by viewing and con- 

 fidcring it. 



The word is formed of the Greek yr,, earth, and o-xorei', 

 I fee, view. 



from which they had been driven by Attila. They then 

 entered into an alliance with the Romans, who agreed to 

 pay them an annua! penfiu:i. Having obtained poflefiion of 

 part of Illyricum, with the city of Sirmium, thty con- 

 Unued quiet till the year 537, when, on account of their 

 joining tlie Heruli, and plundering the neighbouring pro- 



Geofcopy is only conjeftrtral ; but its conjedures are vinces, they were compelled by°Juftinian', after te\-eral 

 very well grounded.^ encounters, to abandon Illyricum, and to content themfelves 



GEOSTATICS. See Statics. with Dacia beyond the Danube. In the year 5 50, a quarrel 



GEPHRUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Syria, arofe between the Gepidje and the Lombards- but the 



according to Polybius, which furrendered to Antiochus. latter, having obtained a reinforcement from Ju'linian at- 



GEPHYRA, a town of Syria, in tlie Seleucide terri- tacked the former, and gave them a total overthrow. This 



tory, according to Ptolemy; 22 miles from Antioch. — defeat was followed by a peace between the two natiors 



Alfo, a town of Africa, according to Polybius, in the which was brought about by the mediation of Juftinian 



yi:inity of Carthage, fituated on the bank of the river The peace, however, was of ihort duration. Under their 



Macros. _ refpedive fovercigns, tos. Cunimandus, king of the Gepidx, 



GEPHYRjEI, a people mentioned by Herodotus, who and Alboiiius, king of the Lombards, thev commenced 



were probably natives of Gephyra in Syria ; they migrated mutual hollilities ; and determined to abide br the ifliie of 



with Cadmus into Birotia, where they occupied the territory 

 of Tanagra ; but on being driven from thence by the Btco- 

 tians, they took refuge in Attica. 



GEPIDjE, a people of Scandinavian origin, of whofe 

 Gothic extradion Joraandes gives tlie following account : 

 the Goths, leaving Scandinavia under the condud of king 

 Barith, put to fea with only three (hips. One of thefc, 

 failing flower than the other two, was thence called " Ge- 

 panta," fignifying in the Gothic tongue How: and hence 

 the name of Gepantx and Gepid;e, which was at firft 



a fmgle battle. The contefi was very fevere, and remained 

 for fome time very doubtful ; but at'lall, tiie Gepidx were 

 put to flight, and purfucd by the vidorioua Lombards v/ith 

 fuch (laughter, tliat fearcely one was left alive of the nu- 

 merous multitude that had eng iged. After this vidory th« 

 Lombards feized the whole o: Dacia, and obliged the Ge- 

 pida: either to fubmit, or to retire. Henceforth they had 

 no king of their ov.-n, but lived in fubjedion either to the 

 I.aimbard3, who were mafters of their country, or to the 

 princes of the neighbouring nations, efpecially the Hunns, 

 given them as an <ippelI«tion of reproach. Procopius like- fettled in Pannonia. Thus their kimi-doin tcri^iinated in the 



wife c.Kprefslv affirms, that the Goths, the Vandals, the 

 Vifigoths, and the Gepidie, were originally the fame 

 nation ; that they had the fame culloms, manners, rehgion, 

 and language; and that they onl\- differed in names, borrowed, 

 perhaps, he favs, from their difterent leaders. They entered 

 Scythia with the other Goths, and fettled in the neighbour- 

 hood of the Tanai.s and Palus Miifotis. There they con- 

 tinued till the reign of Arcadius and Honorius, when, their 

 number being greatly increafed, they approached the 



year 572, .lullin, the fuccelTor of Jullinian, being then em- 

 pet;or. 



GEPPE, in Geography, a river of Germany, which rifes 

 neai- Neuflat in the county of Mark, and runs into the 

 Bigge, two miles N. of Olpe, in Wellphaha. 



GER, Cape. SeeAcuEn. 



GERA, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtiand, on the. 

 Elfter ; 30 miles S.S.W. of Lcipfic. N. lat. 50° 49'. E. 



Ion 



g. 12' 6'. — Alio, a town of Italy, in the department of 



Danube, and having afterwards crofTed that river, dwelt in the Upper Po. — Alfo, a river of Germany, "whicJi run* 



the neighbourhood of Siiigidunum and Sirmium, about the into the Unflrull, fix miles N. of Erfurt, 



year 4C0, where they ftill were when Procopius wrote his Gkka, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia, 



liiftory. They had kings of their own, and formed a diftind Ptoleinv. 



nation, fepai-ate frona buth the Oilrogoths and Villgoths ; 



GERiEA. a town of Lufitania. 

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GER.ES* 



