GAL . 
efteemed, and of a middling fize, ftrong, active, nervous, 
end hardy. Berenger’s Haft. and Art of Horfemanthip, 
vol. ii. p. 20 
Ga ALLOWAY Dyke, in Agriculture, a fort of fence that is 
compefed of earth and ftone FENCE. 
GA WS, an ioe ruent of punifhment, whereon 
perfons convicted capitally of felony, &c. are executed by 
han 
jane our anceftors it was called furca, a fork: 
by which it is {till denominated abroad, particulary 3 in 
France and Italy. In this latter country, the reafon of the 
name {till fubfitts; the gallows being a real fork driven into 
the gro a acrofs the legs whereof is laid a beam, to which 
tied. 
the rope is tied. 
Gattows, in Rural Economy, a term applied to a 
fort. of onda frame formed by naili ing pieces of timber to- 
gether in a tran{verfe diretion, and which is employed for 
orton ufes. 
ows of a Plough, ae that part of it which is 
called the head, and that co 2 
: ed tr eee over the heads of the 
o have oe at the appearance of a com- 
mon gallows, See PLou 
“GALLS, or Gana See Garr and Garr-Nut. 
or 
“ Se 
G s, In Agr ieee a term ufed to fignify the bafe 
vacant ee in crops of rain. 
S3ALLS , in a a town of Sweden, 
Weft Gothland; 50 miles E. of Gothenburgh. 
AL S, "Conxzrs, in Biography, a Roman 
confiderable aa in sete and celebra ae as aman of ce 
9 B. 
in 
to Ga ee whole 
oris is ie fubject a the Bayi Soa 
5, — Rishded 
defertion b 
rae was Le eane fond of his flave Lycor 
ur books of elegies to her honour, which ie 
pian, and Geer _ him to confiderable soon for 
this kin e is cae to by Ovid as having 
eo eael an aad celeb 
“© Gallus from Eaft to Weft thall shee his name, 
And fair Lycoris fhare her poet’s fam 
is mentioned. alfa. sal ee Inc) x iperns Martial, 
and Dther writers acct anti 
ned name e 
° 
1 
i fovereign, . 
government aad pee ity, and pilla 
d by the emperor. 
conipired again 
the province, for which he was banifhe 
This difgrace operated fo powerfully upon him, that he 
killed himfelf in defpair A. D, 26. Some fragments of his 
poetry remain, which prove that he excelled in elegiac 
compofition. He grees into Latin ea es books 
of the Greek poe Virgi to 
nee an sae on mE friend, and oa it at the en 
s Georgics, but that through fear of Auguftus he fup- 
orelied it, and fubftituted the epifode refpecting Ariftzus 
and ae ereri. Suetonius, &c. 
C. A BIU. us TREBONIANUS, emperor of Rome, 
rofe ioe an high office, from being one of the chief com- 
mauders ais Decius, at the time when that emperor loft 
of 
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his life in an a@tion with the Goths. He afceniled the va- 
caut throne in the year 251, and difplayed } his naar to 
the mem ee of his former mafter b ee him in the rank 
nd agreeing to pa 
The emperor, ie acc Splithed th this sob. 
Ae » returned to Rome, eh he abandoncd himfelf to an 
effeminate and voluptuous life, which rendered hi 
temptible and nee to his fubje@s. The public senna 
ere aggravated by a terr sas peftilence, which carrie 
eople, and among them probably t e young 
empercr, his coadjutor, Hofhlinnus The death of th: 
eal — however, iit ute allus, and, having once. 
giv nt to their fulpicions, fe people now imputed the 
calamities of the former reign to the perfidious councils of 
the prefent emperor. The tr ranquillity which the empire cn- 
joyed during the firft year of Gallus’s adminiftration ferved 
tu inflame rather than appeafe the public difcontent, 
as foon as the apprehenfions of war were 
e 
fuccefs, and not con 
The defen 
it 
t 
the glory of he ri vil w 
murder of Gallus and ase fon Volufianus. 
nlaen. ine year 253, alitser he had reigned about two years. 
eae ineg? Gibbon 
s, Camsar, nephew of Conftantine ix. Great, was 
gan about the year 326. ay vith his te Julian, usc 
orme t fix years of age, were the 
ae Pal race who were {pared 
an 
= erent citie 
uch an age as to exc rele the se of a 1e emperor 5 3 he 
then judged it gear te fecure the unhappy princes in the 
{lrong caitle of Macellum, near Cefarea. e treatment 
which they ae was partly {uch as might be expetted 
from a careful guardian, and partly fuch as they might 
dread from a iickious tyrant. 
this political percent by his. ilies with 
Conitantina. Antioch was now appom 
and he was ard ae the pile eee of the a 
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