GAB 
in Sh nee N.E. of a Salt-lake, E. of Chalcis, and 
&.E. of Cha pes on 
; ER, wn of Syria, called by Jofephus Gaba, and 
by Pliny Gabba. The latter of whom intimates that. it 
was one of the tetrarchies, which adjoined to the towns of 
the Decapolis.—Alfo, a {mall town of cece ne, 16 miles 
from Cefarea ; probably the fame with the precedin 
L, or GaBELLE, in the French On, foms, a duty 
or impofition on falt 
“tymo ogifts are divided as to the origin of the word. 
Hebrew gab, a prefent ; others from 
Some derive i it from the 
S5; _ to er; others from VAD: kabbalah, receipt ; 
others from ghauel, or gale, law ; and others from 
the corrupt Latin gadella, or ce tribute 
The gabel is let owt to farm ; ; and formed, before the re- 
volution in France, the fecond article in ‘the king’s re- 
venue 
There were three farms of aed : the firft comprehend- 
- the Saati part of the kingdom; the fecond was that of 
e Lyon and Languedoc ; ae the third that of Da 
phing a ee ce. There were feveral provinces ex- 
empt from the gabel, having purchafed that privilege of 
Henry IT. 
This duty is {aid to have had its rife in France, in 1286, 
under Philip the Fair. Philip the Long took a double 
c 
sr 
by Philip N 1345 5 ey was 
vet ae to four deniers per livre ; king John ae med it 
1355, and it was granted to the Dauphin in 1358, to ee 
king John. It was continued by Charles V. in 13663 after 
his deccafe it was ase but revived again by Charles 
VI. in 1381. Louis XI. raifed it to twelve deniers per 
livre ; and Francis I. i ae t enty-four livres per 
je 3 and it has been confiderably oe . fince tha 
; fo thata minot of falt paid a duty of 52 livres, 8 fols, 
me ¢ 
aa 6den. Philip de Valois firft eftablithed pet and 
officers to the gabelles, and prohibited any other perfons 
from {felling falt 3 ; from hich time the whole commerce of 
falt, for the inland confum nption, lay wholly in the xing's 's 
fdas, who fold and diitributed oy ie thereof by h 
farmers, and officers created for the pur 
The produce of Ge impoit was fo cee able, that it 
was computed to make one fourth of the whole revenue of 
the kingdom. , 
GaABEL, or els is alfo ufed, in fome of our Ancient 
Writers, for any fort of tax, or impofition: as gabel o 
wines, of filks, 
GABEL, or ‘Cae, in Geography, atown of Bohemia, 
in the circle of Bolefla Ws 45 miles N. of Prague. N. lat. 
50° 44'. E. long. 14° 
GABELLUS, in wea € ener ably: 4 a cchiay a river 
which commenced on the con ni, in Liguri 
and difcharged itfelf the Padus 
GABENA, atown of Afia n Media. Ptol, 
GABERSTORTP, ia Cae, a town of Stiria; 10 
miles W.S.W. of Gna 
GABIA , in ‘Ancient Geography, a province of Afia, 
near Sufiana, which belonged to the Elymwans, according 
to otrabo. 
GABLEI, a town of Italy, in Latium ; nearly E. of 
ome 
BIN, .in aa a tawn of the duchy of War- 
faw 3 40 miles rfaw 
GABI hes or alan a town of Africa, in the cae ae 
dom of Loan 
GABI INIA Toca. See Toca. 
GAB 
Ray AN Law, in elas oo a law, fo 
alle d from Gabinius, tribune of t eople, who, at ihe in= 
0 ofed it i clearing the feas of the. 
whole number and power were daily incre an 
Thefe robbers fitted out at firft but a fmall number of light 
veffels ; but upon their being protected by Mithridates, 
who, during his war with Rome, took them into his fervice; 
de equipped 1C0o ga we me exercifed a kind of fovereign- 
y over all the coafts of t Tediterranean. They fpared 
not one temple that was ae Hs its riches on the coats 
of Italy, Greece, and Afia. Il the pec iia ts on the 
fea-fhore fell a prey to the They flaves without 
cea 3 blecked up all ie ports rs ne oul Fillaged 
e city of Caicta; funk part of a confular fleet at Oftia 
and having made a defcent near Mifene, carried away the 
daughter of the old conful Antonius, with fevcral other 
perfons of diltinétion. They committed a variety of other 
depredations ; and therefore ae = propoled the 
above-mentioned law, was applau ar ; ay 
he had n ou r Pom- 
ribunes : their 
Se authority. In virtue of this law the perfon to whem 
he Roman people and fenate fhould commit the management 
of this war was to have a power without reftriCtion, his au- 
thority was to extend over the feas w ithin the ftraits, or the 
e fenate, who faw through the tribune’s defign, and feveral 
ae reproac ie Pompey with aiming at the fove ereignty 
of Rome. ter much Ad eae Gabinius’s motion was 
pe ahaietae by a great majority, a 
make war upon the p e 
B. C. 66. A. U.C. 682. mpey, in virtue of this law, 
was furnifhed with sco oe 120,000 pana a 5000 horfe ;, 
and he condnéted the expedition with fo n srudence an 
vigour, that he cleared > fea in four roth eed ee 
aken or funk 1300 ording to fome, or accordin 
others, 846 of their ai a ae 10,060 
and reduced 120 towns or caftles on the ea Ww 
fale. In this expedition the oT fet at liberty 
an incredible numter of c e 
de Ser 
allus, Adena, Epiphania, ou So 
ter he called from his own name Pompeiopcli 
NIUS, Autus, in Biograph oi an ancient Roman 
mander, who ai his erie career under the diétator 
Sylla about ce year . 82 e arrived at the high hos 
of the confulate in 58, and in the peas year ob- 
as ed the government of the rich province of 
he carried on his ape ice with a 
againit Alexender ~ 2 
li. which ie 
1S. 
repla 
thridates on fs throne of Parthia, w note interefts he aa 
abandone na ftill larger bribe was offered him im by Pto-. 
emy Altes, ng of Egypt, to affift in re-eftablifhing him 
acy .: 
on his Aa 
owed, 
