GAL 
g their goods at Galley-key, and cone a their own 
en filver coin, termed galley-halfpenc 
GALLI 
The principal of them was called Archi-Gallus. The G 
were alfo called Dadyli Idei, Coryban c ithors are 
not agreed as to the reafon of this denomination. e 
rive the name from the river Gallus ; becaufe thefe priefts 
dran nk of its waters, which infpired them with a kind of reli- 
gious fury and enthufiafm, and deprived them of their fenfes 
to fuch a degree, that they mutilated themfelves ; this was 
preienbes b y Cybele as a qualification for their office: thus 
Ovid, “Qui bibit, inde furi 
Others hold, that the fi prieft of Cybele te ae 
named Gallus, the name me appropriate to al 
cefiors, Voffius, who patie thefe two opinions, on 
incline moft to the latter ; though Ovid, in ae fourth oF his 
Faiti, and Herodian, lib. i. favour the for rmer. 
When youth were initiated into this order, the cuftom in 
Syri ia, according to Lucian, was to throw off their cloaths, 
to make loud cries, and with drawn {words to caftrate them- 
ands ark 
thrown into a houfe, and in that houfe they put on women’s 
drefs. 
Thefe priefts threw themfelves into a kind of phrenfy 
when they performed the ceremonies of the goddefs; appa- 
rently i in imitation of the young Atys, her favourite, whom 
they likewife imitated, by mutilating themfelves. For au- 
for eine that Cybele being defperately in love with that 
young Phrygian, fhe o— de the pi ahaa teral ote of her 
facritices, on condition he 
foon after, forge ting: his pe ife, h an affair oak the 
nymph Sangaritis ; that ele, ores hereat, ftruck him 
mad 3. that in a vehement eu of his 8 phr enfy he wa 5 going 
to his cadences that, out of his own ronerie ie caf 
i at after his example all the priefts of 
Cybele from that time “lid the like. 
hrenfy; at the time of the i confifted 
ing round the head with great esau and making 
violent hee ions of the whole body: they had alfo drums 
and flutes, wherewith they played and dancedita them : as 
already obferved under the articles Goma and Cu- 
RETES. 
Van Dal faa | theafe Mall. f, 
ftrollers, yagrants, 
and quacks, who went about ftrolling om town to town, 
playing upon cymbals and crotala, wearing on their breatts 
{mall images of the mother of the » in order to raife 
charitable contributions. Apuleius reprefents them as the 
dregs of the people, asa fet of furious fanatics, and as infa- 
moufly debauched. They are held in equal contempt by 
Clem ia, Laétan waa Chryfo 
mens of Alexandri 
ufti 
n which none elfe were 
allowed to go a-begging ; 3 this kind of begging, authorized 
by law, occurred about once in every month, and hence the 
trae ener’ ie name of «* Menagyrte’’ and “ Metra- 
yrtze 3’ 
and dealers in aes non le- 
m of Alexandria adds to the cualication of thefe Galli 
that of a fortune-teller and footh-fayer, becaufe they really 
ad atw nas in their retinue old 
pretended to prediction. 
Plutarch fays of them, 
women, who paffed for forcerefles, 
oL. AV. 
GAL 
fpeaking of the verfes Me they fang, that net ae. 
.@) 
oracles into fuch c contempt, t 
Te Tripos, i.e. of Delphy, were 
‘a fame author adds, that they deli- 
mpore, or drew them by lot from 
ich shee carried with them, and fold their 
wretched prediGt ons to fi ae omen.who were charmed with . 
the cadence of their verfes 2° 
Gaui, Signuora, in Biography, arrived in England at the 
fame time as Frafi, in 1743, when lord Middlefex was pro- 
prietor of the Opera-houfe, and the principal fingers were 
Monticelli, the Vifconti, and Amorevoli. Galli’s voice 
being of a lower pitch, which the Italians call MER. ZO ie 
prano, and her appearance being lefs feminine than that of 
Fra fi, in “Enrico,” fet by Galuppi, fhe firft performed a 
man’s part, and was ibe = barlaay employed in male 
parts on the ftlage. Ther s fomething ame) and in- 
terefting in her manner ; fon » fhe was little noticed by 
the public till fhe fung in Handel's oratio of “ Judas ice 
beeus,’? 1746, when fhe acquired fuch a in the air ¢¢ Siren 
liberty alone,’’ that fhe was not only encored in it every 
night, but became an op dea perfonage, among i inges 
or a confiderable time afterwards. 
ties. 
GALLIA, in Ancient Geography. See Gau - 
GALLIAMBIC, in the Ancient Peay. Galliambic. 
ms denote compofitions in Galliambic verfes. 
Gauss amBic Verfe, a fort of iambic, confifting of fix 
feet ; 1. An anapett, or a {ponde ee; 2..An iambic, or an ana- 
pelt, eae bade 3. Aniambus; 4. A daétyl ; 5. oa. 
and 6. Ana 
Though one " might meafure oe Galliambic = in an- 
other manner, and mak t arrangement and combi- 
nation of {yllables, Blick oud give erent ea. It is 
certain the ancients regarded little more in the rare 
verfe befide the number of me afures, or intervals, withow 
troubling themfelves about - the oneal of fyllables, or the 
inds of feet whereof it was compo 
GALLIAMBUS, in Poetry, a cat kind of verfe, 
ufed to be fung by the Galli, ci of Cybele, in honour 
of that goddefs, 
he word is a compound of Gallus, a ale of Cybele, 
and zamdus, a foot in the Greek and Latin verfe. 
Galliambus alfo denotes a piece or pectin See in Galliam-- 
bic verfes, 
GALLIANO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the. 
department of the Lario; fix miles S.S.E. of Como. 
GAL D, Joun Ernest, in ate ah a native 
of in Suabia, and, according to her, the fon of 
a French peruque-maker, and {cholar of Marichal ; though. 
it ioe been faid by one of his Diographe s, that had 
concerts at Hanover, and author of the ground that goes. 
under ‘his name, upon which Corelli’s sath olo is 
founded. 
He came into England ; in the fuite of prince George of 
Denmark ; his inftrument was the hautbois, — he played 
in public, "perhaps for the laft time, in acco {rs, 
Barbier in a fong at. his benefit in Lincoln Fields play- 
houfe, 1 1722. eems to have ftudied our language on his 
arrival in this country with confiderable iio and fuc- 
cefs ; for in 1712 he was —— by Hughes to fet his i 
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