GAB 
notary, but gave no explicit reply to. the deputies. Upon 
his return he entered upon the exercife a his office, whi ich 
peo oe ae tee meee the eiey, and againft the 
ie in the public adminiftration. hen men’s minds 
were prepare for a change, he fum ae his friends, an 
eas 
efs to gain over the pope’s vicar ; and at afecond meet- 
ae in the capitol, a  prodiiced fifteen articles as - bafis of 
the « Good Eftate,”? which were unanimoufly approved, 
and the ald pra ed upon lum the title of tribune, abr 
the power of life and death, and all the other cee of 
fovereignty. The governor of the city, Colonna 
been abfent fome time, returned, and at firft eae him 
with punifhment, but quickly found that the power of the 
ftate was taken out af his hands, and that he himfelf mutt 
feek for fecurity by flight. Rienzi banifhed him with the 
principal noble families of Rome, and fome, who ha i 7 
nt. 
him ing o e 
folicited hie friendthip, and it was spi ne 
n infframent i in the hands 
taly. ng the mioft e 
an 
celebrated Petrarch, who had poueed an admiration for. 
his charactéc, when joined with him as one of the deputies 
to the pope; by the poet he was exhorted to procced in 
his glorious undertaking, but his fuccefs was more than he 
could bear. He affumed a variety of titles, iffued a letter 
declaring Rome the head of the — an 
tured to cite the two rival emperors, Char 
and the aman to pee be ae on ae juitify tee 
f{everal prete He difmiffed the pope’s legate, re- 
duced the noble re a itate of humiliation, and ef ftablifhed a 
He now found, that thofe who had been 
~ his caufe, 4 while he aéted with prudence 
and maderation, were the firft to defert his fandard, when 
that ftandard was attempted to be reared on the rights of the 
people. Finding that he had loft the affeCtion and confidence 
of the people, he withdrew from Rome, and, in the begin- 
ning of the year 1348, took refuge in the kingdom o 
Naples, and was obliged to live i in a hermit’s cell 
took adv antage 
three pers to try him; but ies the death of that 
his fucceffor, Innocent VI. re eafed 1 from com 
e€ 
infurgent who had feized the government of ae t evel 
The Romans received him again with great demonftrations’ 
‘oots 
- fubmit to fach- eee a. a ments, 
GAD 
of joy, and he even recovered his former authority, which, 
however, he held but 4 fhort time, _when th e nobles found 
effed an union of fanati- 
ond was a oe Sener in fpeech and 
ion. His original intention was unquef- 
pa with artifice ; 
council than in ae 
iona 
bly good, bu ither - hi er nor underftanding 
was adequate. to the festa of = enterprize. He wanted 
ce of mind 1 
ergencies anger, and he is faid to 
ld betrayed a fhamefal caus in the laft {cene of his 
as 
GABRIS, in Ancient Gengrapey * the name of two towns 
in the interior of Media. Pto ATfo, a place in ene 
whieh lay, eae ‘6 ee ne of Peutinger, in 
route from Cxefarodunum to Avienum. M. d’ Anville vefers 
it to Chabris, N. W. of Bourges. 
4, or GABRETA, a foreft, between which and 
pecs mountains of the Sarmatians lay the Hercynian foreit, 
which. fee. 
Brita, Sylva, a foreft which lay on the S.W. 
i ae coon where a chain of hills now divides it from 
av. 
GABS, a town of Africa, in 
in a bay of the Mediterranean, 
ancientl called 
the 8S. E. a art_of Tunis, 
ae the L 
Seay granite pillars, {quare, and about 
The old city, where thefe ruins are raat ie was built upon 
a ne ground, at half a mile’s di eae from the new, 
having been formerly wathed by the fea, ttt Ags forced 
itfelf into a bay of nearly half a mile in diam But at 
prefent the greateft part of this bay is filled ie ‘and ae 
from the fea, _— from the oo fhallownefs of i 
nd 
daily reception m the river, will ealily 
abs 
are feveral plantations of p The chief branch 
of trade at prefent confi sj in the eat. which 
is plentifully cultivated in a their uate his beau- 
tiful, odoriferous plant grows 10 cr 12 feet high, putting 
out its flowers in | which yield a fell 1: ‘Ne camphor; _ 
the leaves are ufed frican ladies to tinge their hair, 
hands, or feet of a rete faffron colour, by them efteemed 
eae Gabs lies at the diftance of 170 miles S. from 
Tur N. lat. 34. E. long. 10’ 2': Shaw’s Travels, 
a 7t 13. 
ACE’, a town of France, in the department of the 
Orne, and chief place of a canton, in ae ‘difizridt o 
tan; 13 miles E. of Argentan. . The 
and the canton 7640 inhabitants, on a territory of 1524 
kiliometres, in 18 communes. 
sA RIBE oe, in Pai aatd Geography, a diltrit of | 
Paleftine, which lay on north fide of Re 
ordan on the weft, monites on the eaft, and 
the half tribe of Manaffeh on the north, reaching from 32° 
to 32 50! of latitude, and fi 36'15' to almoft 37° 
eaft longitude. It was no lefs rich and fertile than that of 
fince called 
and more lately Philadelphia, Ramoth-Gilead or high lands 
of Gilead, Rogelim, the native place of good old Barzillai, 
Thifabi, Sharon; Sophar, Armon, Mogefh, Debbir or 
Dabbir, 
