GAY 
has been’ exhibi ted. By making a highwayman the hero, 
and bringing him off in a kind of triumph, the pare has 
ee above the eelar or the fear of want, he 
fell into a dejected ftate of {pirits, and was in other refpects 
much out of health; but in the happier intervals, he 
produced his “ Acis and Galatea,” and the opera of 
6¢ Achilles.”’ He died in December, 1732, at the age of 
forty-four, fincerely lamented by his friends; and his Foee 
mory was honoured by a sere in Weitminfter Abbe 
where his remains were de 
of fome other pieces befides thofe already earn and of 
two er ids Jara known, viz. i e Downs,’’ 
and «© ’T'was when the Seas were soma Biog. Brit. 
Lives of the Poets. 
Gay Head, in Geography, a kind of peninfula, in Ame- 
rica, on Martha’s vineyard, between three and four miles in 
t 
ns, in- 
ma 
oO 
arge : 
habiting this part, lately numbered, amounted to 20 
foil is good, and with cultivation will produce moft vegeta- 
‘Traces are perceived of former volcanoes on this pe- 
N. lat. 41° 20'. W. long. 70° se 
GAYA, or Kyeow Gaya, a town of Moravia, in the 
circle of Hradifch ; 14 mil W.S.W. a Piradifch, ”'N. lat. 
48° 59. E. long. 17° 
ninfula. 
Gaya, a town of Hindooftan in the oo of Bahar ; 
6'. 8°.— 
50 miles S, of Patna. N. lat. 24° 4 5 
cere a river of Spain, from whic h Sci 7s med an aque- 
to Tarragona —Alfo, a fmall (land 3 in the Eaft-Indian 
rs near the eaft coait of cried. N. lat. 4° 46’. E. long, 
oe 
GAYA See GUAIAC 
GAYACH, i in Grngraply, a a river of Bavaria, which runs 
into the Danube, 5 miles of Paffau. 
YETA, a town of ee in Valencia; 30 miles S. 
of Valencia. 
GAYLAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude; 8 miles 
S. of Banfey. 
GAYMENT, Fr. has been - to be equal to is 
ital. Aegan lively, quick ; t the French word, asRouf. 
feau vell abies ed, is not fo. sare in its figvifcation 
being pate) to ae eal. light, airy ftrains alone ; whereas 
GAZ 
allegro extends to quick movements of all kinds of cha- 
ORE, in Biography, a learned modern 
Greek, who ee in the 15th century, was born at Thelf- 
falonica. After the detftr wala of his native cily, im 1430, 
by the Turks, he took refuge in Italy, and = idied the La 
tin langu: age with fuch di iigen ice, that in three years he was 
fo thoroughly acquainted with it as to ae one of the 
moft elequent writers in lis time. From 1442 to 1450 he 
was a profeflor in the univerfity of Verrara, an ¢ afterw ba 
its ai a re ren efore this he was in a of extre 
indigence, and was obliged to copy Greek ene for 
a liv ae oe From Ferrara he went into ae fervice of pope 
Nicholas V.,-and at the fame time obtained the patronage 
of car ioc Beleuea, who made him his contd ntial friend. 
Upon the death of = Pope he w ae babel me oe kin 
Alplioni at Naples, whofe deceafe has returned to 
atron a Bolfvion procured him a rich 
benefice j in Calabria, but being inattentive to his ow nt affairs, 
he was {till in but deprefled circumiftances. 
of Nicholas V. he mnie Toor a tranflation of 
work on animals, w! i i 
Sixtus IV., to who ae e prefented it, and e 
a eee ee remuneration, inftead of ¥ vhich ie was mortified 
with a prefent of fifty crowns only, which, it is faid, fo en- 
raged him that he aétually threw the money into the Tyber.. 
After this he retur ned to Ferrara, and rom thence to Cala- 
have been celebrated by re principal {cholars among his. 
contemporaries. His works are “ A Greck. Grammar,” 
printed by Aldus in 1495, per with his treatife «On the 
Grecian Months.’’ Beiides the work already selene of Arif-. 
F i :. Theo 
phorattu : 
: the Homilies of John Chryfof- 
He tranflated Cicero de Se- 
n ther pieces from L 
the controverfy between the Platonifts and Ariftotelians he 
compofed a work againft the notions of the former. Gen 
Biog. 
» in Ancient Geography, one of the five Philiftine fa- 
ys or principalities, fituated tow by the fouthern extre- 
mity Canaan, about 1 miles S. of Afcalon Dae or five 
N. of the river cage and at a {nx a ‘Silanes from e€ 
terrancan. lace ninence,. fur sada by 
beautiful and fertile vallies ; w ner b the aba Deena t 
river and a number of ether {prings, and, at a further dif-. 
tance, encompaffed on the inland tide with hills highly culti-- 
vated g, on account of its fituation, and.alfo 
by mea 
of Judah, or affigned to this tribe by 
regained by its inhabitants ; and held es till Samfon. 
carried off the gates of it in the night. (Jefh..xv. 47, 1 Sam 
It often changed matters, and pafled from the Philif-. 
ered 
Syria an 
times from the cae by the Macken a and de- 
royed by Alexander Jannzus,, king of the Jews ;. repaired 
by Gabinius ; and given by Auguitus to Herod ihe Great 
Pa not fubject to his fon Archelaus, Re evaugelift Luke 
as 
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