GAL 
GALATEIO, in ae a town of oe in Ca- 
labria Ultra; eight miles E.S.E. of Nicote 
A THEA, in Natural Hiffory, a genus of cruftacea 
in the Fabrician fyftem, including the Linnean fpecies of 
eancri ftrigofus, branchiatus, gregarius, anc amplectens. 
The character = this Fabrician Janae a ts in having the 
antenne of unequal length, t ones pedunculate 5 
pofterior efile Ww se the laft out een ; tail foliaceous. 
See artic ANGER. 
I, @ town of the ree a poe in the valley 
tf 
of Demona; 12 miles 5S. W 
ALATIA, or Gatro-Grcia, in Ancient Geography, 
(Attic. c. 4.) has given an account, ed this country, 
fettled in it, and called it Galatia, which in Greek figni- 
fies Gaul, or rather, perhaps, New or Little Gaul. The 
Gale were | ane by the Greeks “ Celtes” or 
«¢ Galat 
It is not ae to afcertain the epoch of their eftablifhment 
At 
in Galatia. the death of Alexander, however, in the 
year 32 C. we fin at the Gauls of Thrace and 
Illyria were difp oe to join the confederacy of Greece 
edon 
a 
ae which he pened over Antipater (321 B.C. 
Thefe Gauls being afterwards attacked by Caffander, the 
fon of Antipater, and being obliged to retire to mount 
Hemus (316 B.C.), were engaged 
Antigonus by the grant of a confiderable 
to be occupied a themfelv their tals 
thofe G 
was followed by aches foe time a 
comm mand of Brennus. ommencement of the cam- 
en Leonorix and Lutarix,  oiees ife aed Leo- 
norius and Lutarius, ieee ted fro 
and ha entered Thrace, made them- 
the Propontis, and advanced to 
aving fur- 
eft 
a OO en 5 
felves rafters a the coait of 
I 
his troops thither, forme 
king of ‘Bithynia, who furnifhed him with veffels for this 
ed him to obtain in that country a con- 
Lutarix and Leonorix, 
came again united jn this treaty wit medes 5 an 
curred not only in acc a eaira a defigns of Nicomedes, 
but in'making conquefts on their own account. About the 
fame time Attalus . king of Peroainiis - afligned a confider- 
hofe Gauls who ferved again 
[ary 
’ 
chus ; ms to have been about this period (278 
years B.C.) that they eftablifhed themfelves in Afi 
M Upon the whole we may obferve, hefe feem 
we may asl 
prehended o only 
ed to 
ce Leonorix and Lutarix. The fecond was that in 
which Attalus (in the year 220 B, fligned them a 
tergitory in , {inor ; and the third was that in which 
alz 
feparated from the Hellefpont by Epittetus, 
became extended from the weft towards the eaft, or from 
on 
come in the fervice of 
ract 
om him with a body of. 
Antio-- 
GAL 
teh rygia Major to Pontus Polemaicus. Accordingly eid 
firft eftablifhments of the Galats were towards the Aigeat 
fea; in procefs of time they extended themfclves to a 
Taurus ; afterwards they obtained a more permanent efta- 
blifhment, and gave the name of Galatia to the whole 
country which extended frdm the river Sangarius to the 
alys. 
he precife limits of agent are not hte alee soar 
diff 
by Pt 
article, is generally dige ed to * rauch too con ete 
it would comprehend the whole of Phr 
mee a ene | 
rocmi, and the 
Tolificboues or Toliftoboii. M. d'Anville places the latter 
to the weft, the Teftofagi towards the middle bearing 
northward, and the Trocmi towards the eaft. Pliny informs 
us that Gal atia was divided into 
Strabo we learn, that e s of th 
people already mentioned was -livided into four cantons, each 
of which had a tetrarch; and befides thefe 12 tetrarchs, 
there was a general council of the — fe a od of co 
fenat ors. The tet trarchs \ bie: as fom oe but, 
ey 
trarchies. From 
underwent a variet 
a 
he tetrarch an ng 
Sy as ion being fecretary to Beion 
of Pifidia in the year of Rome 
n provinces, an 
fubjeéted to a propret ether i part of Phrygia, 
Pifidia, &c. but the an Be eee clafles of people, ae 
enumerated, retained their peculiar denomination and for 
emperors it was divided into two 
provinces 5 Galatia Prima being fubje&t to a conful, 
taris alas The former was 
fituated towards the rs contained feven towns, and 
for its metropolis Ancyra ; the ad lay to the wett, - 
contained nine towns, the capital being Peffinonte. The 
religion of the ancient Galate was blended with much fuper- 
rea on they are a to have Rau ed the mother of 
the er the name of Agdiftis. ‘They offered human 
fa cles, devoting to mo purpofe the prifoners whom they 
took in “They were a tall and valiant people ; their 
arms were cally a {word and buckler, and they commonly 
The impetuofity of their attack was irre- 
at they were fond of 
ufic ada 8 parte pies canine. which was called 
ie “Ca arnyx. ‘al They uf d the bat d have been comme 
for their chaftity and ene fidelity. ‘They had fplendid 
repa{ts and feaits, in which they covered ther tables with 
bread and flefh; and thefe forts of feftivals were area 
on a = = ‘te en by nn putea of co 
appe rom the s of the spol, ‘that in 
oe fev Seal times in Galatia ; A 
; fir 
xvi. 6); afterwards, A.D. 5 4 (As, xviii 23. ay and ia 
he 
