GAM 
‘Nafer-Khan, made himfelf mafter of the province, and con 
feque He acknowledges himfelf vaffal na 
g. 56° 44. 
GAMBROVISSA. a town of Iftria ; nine miles E. of. 
Capo d’Iftria. 
a bailliage- and town of Switzerland. This 
bailliage, hich lies S. of Appenzel, and E. of the Rhine, 
is fubject 
gether with arid and ane comprehends 149 fquare 
geographical m ulation of gooo ae 
Gambs has a medicinal faipiarois {pring ; five miles S. of 
Appenzel. 
E, he aregular diverfion, or a {port prefcribed 
and limited atl a 
mes may be ditnguithed: into thofe of exercife and ad- 
drefs ; and thofe of chan a 
To the firft belong tennis, billiards, chefs, bowls, cud- 
gels, wreftling, quoits, fhootin ing w ith bows, &c. 
To thefe alfo belong the ancient aa and as 
Under the fecond come cards and dice, 
ong the ancients on religious, funerary, 
and args lemn occa 
ns. 
ch, amon one Greeks, were the Olympic, Pythian, 
Ifthmian, aad’ f ames 
Among the Rom mans there were three forts of games, 
shh Vas. and ludicrous ¢ 
nce, fomewhat of the fame kind, among thofe of the 
yee 3 two of ies “ir aoe games being dedicated to 
gods, and two to 
Games, Sacr me were 2 tek inftituted immediately in hor 
eity: of which kin e were the ludi 
pelle aegis Martiales, Apollina Megalenfes, Ro- 
onfuales or Circenfes, Capitolini, Seculares, Plebeii, 
a 
» Palatini, and Votivi. See each 
ibed in 
a ane lati se ee be referred thofe celebrated in me- 
— cal fome illuftrious perfon or action ; as the ludi Nera- 
ar rhe 3 i, &c. 
Compitalit, Augu re ales 
— 
m 
thave made up the greateft part, or rather the 
the external worfhip or fervice offered to the deities of the 
omans. 
oo Funeral. See FUNERAL L gam 
us, onorary, ludt honorarit, were gine exhibited 6 
private hoe oan out of their own purfe, in order to gratify 
ople, or Bice Sila seem serge ee with them, .to. make 
wn pre . Such were the combats of 
diators, i enic tragedies, comedies, and other 
theatrical and ceplieics oe 
, 
to the cantons of Schweitz and Glarus ; a to-- 
and Aufonius obferves a dif-. 
GAM 
GAMES, oe were ss - ia kind with the games 
of cob and amo were the ludus 
Trojanus, or Phan ; the cies: and tali or dice; and 
the latrunculi, or chefs 3 > iagoceay or quoit ; the pila, - 
all; trocheus, top r par impar, odd and even, 
with nuts 5 faites, foie 3 capita vel navem; crofs 
and pile, 
_Others diftinguifh the ancient games into three claffes, viz. 
races, combats, The firfk were called 
equeftrian, or curule games, ud: equeftres, or curiiles 5. be-, 
ing races of horfes and chz fail performed in the circus in. 
honour of the Sun and us sar 
. The fecond or gym ; being © om-- 
of men or — in fe par ea dedicat ted’ to 
Mars and Miner 
The laft, called {cenici, poetici, and mufici, were (rage- 
dies, comes, balls, &c. reprefented on the ees facred. 
to tae Bacchus, ni eae and Minerva. 
gi s a fine defcription of the games which 
Achilles inftituted at the funeral of his friend Patroclus, - 
dyffey. And Virgil’s defeription of the games celebrated 
by ness, at the funeral of old Anchifes, is not meron to 
any of them. 
Gants, 5 ecular. See Suc 
ES, Mujical in the Greek Mat itiguity, games, in almoft~ 
all ens there were m mufical contentions, and honours and 
prizes conferred on fuperior merit. 
t all ng ies ae public games in Greece, it. 
and mufic had their. heroes. Indeed - 
inging was 
fometimes accompanied by inftruments, 
and ee ‘s {tringed inftruments 3 as poets who com- 
pofed verfes for mufic were called lyrics, that is, fuch as 
ees chemlelve: on the lyre. (See Pha nias Meffenic. 
ca the inftruments which u 
peating their yerfes without inftrumental accompaniments, 
always did it to vocal melody, not in the indeterminate 
32) te : 
compofition his appears by tl 
in At ae from the FRorian Helis 
us - pan ae firft prize int 
layin tea the cithara, tha 
a is given ee the regilter of the Pythic games, from 
-. 4¥l2 whick 
