GEL 
procure, a {mall income was more than fufficient to ay 
all his wants, and he dev as a confiderable part of it to 
oF: benefice ence. «As long as the Germans fhall Sead 
their prefent language, w ail the works of Gellert be read; 
aud his chara¢ter will be honoured while virtue is down 
and refpeeted.”” Gen. Biog 
ELLHEIM, in Geogr -aphys a town a France i in the 
department of Ment Tonnerre 3 i3 miles of Worms. 
GELLI, GiaMBatista, in Biography, an Italian poet, 
was born at Florence in mean parents, who paca 
him up to the mechanical eae of a aac is had, 
however, given him the beft educati n which cheit circum. 
PEE 
ftances could afford, and he ca ailinguited for litera- 
_ture, and was, in the end, one of tl ief ornaments of the 
ae] egli He wrote as comedies, entitled 
ato ID 
4a Sporta and Lehane.” which were aeesunied the 
beft compoiitions of the kind then in the language. Het ran{- 
of Euripides, from the Greek into the 
talia He was authdr of feveral other works, fom 
ae ah fubje&ts; Diflertations upon the poems of Dante 
trarch ; Tranflations and Remarks on the difficulty 
os Feducine the Italian language to rule, &c. Gelli died in 
1563. Moreri. 
GEL ‘LIBRAND, ed tinoug was born in London i in the 
a Trinity college, 
1619, he 
took his degree n a hearing one 
of fir Henry Saville? 8 TeGures on ma nei ics, he conceived 
a ftrong se eases for the && the cence and devoted 
himfelfto t he purfuit with vigour, that, in 1623, 
he attracted the notice and Paendihtp oF feveral able mathe- 
maticians, particularly of Mr. Briggs, by whofe * patronage 
he obtained in 1626, the profefierfhip of .a m 
Grefham college. Fr om this time he lived in clofe i aes 
with ‘Mr. Brigg 8) wh@entruite ones the tafk of complet- 
ing his Britifh ‘I németry, which he did not himfelf live to 
finifh: to this fe i: da pre oes and the application of the 
logarithms to plain and pigalr trigonometry. During the 
= 
time he was preparing or e prefs, he was cited 
into the high oe on-court - r. Laud, then bifhop 
of mei on‘ae¢ount of an pees which he had pub- 
lifhed, and in which he had omitted the names o 1 
an P 
faints, and infertéd thofe of fome of the martyrs celebrated 
n Yox’s A&ts and Monuments.of the churc Upon trial, 
e was acquitted by the whole éourt, v = the oan of 
arehbithog Laud only, which was made an article of accufa- 
tion againit the prelate hunfelf at his own ven Mr. Gelli- 
‘brand i 
n on!y in his 
He left behind him tuany ‘valuable treatifes 
“Copernican ie Bog Brite 
GE RE, in Sear a town of Sweden, in 
the lapmarke off Lul s N.N.W. of Lulea. 
N. lat. 67'7'. E. lon ne 
GELLOSIA, in Nowunct “Hiflory, a name by which 
call the chalazias. 
fome of the writers. of thea middle 388 
GE Feograph yy a town of 
ELMAN, or Kage MAH, in 
a city of Judah, the birth-place oe Ahitophel. 
battle on the banks of the Helorus. 
them 
GEL. 
Africa, in the country of Algi ers; so miles E. of Con 
ftantina. pnts _fays Shaw, (Travels, Le Me yi ; eiieeve 
h fo much wanted i geogra- 
ftin, in an indeteninats 
tina. 
Gr ELMAN, ancient called « Ci cr * Oppidum 1 Cile 
manenfe,’’ a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Tunis; 
This apeare to a re been formerly a ae ek and: pe 
area of a temple is ftill remaining; $4 miles §.5.W. 
Tunis. N. lat. 35°18. E. long. 9° 20'. 
GELMON, or GeEtoy, or Gi lon, in Ancient Geograph B 
2 Sam 
Hails BA. 
GELMUDEN, or Getmuyen, or Genemuyden, a town 
of Holland, in the flate of Overy fel, fituated on the fouth 
fide of the as near the Zuy det fee 5 6 miles aN: 
of Campen. t.62" ac. ong. 5° 
GELNHAUSEN, a town of Germany, i in the cued 
of Hanau Munzenburg, on the Kintzig; given, in 1802, te 
the lng os oe fle Caffel ; 12 miles E. of Paras 
late 60° 19° 15s 
GE LOM, j Bie gs. king of sy ey: was defcended 
rom an ace family fettled in the of Gela. He firft 
dift inguifhed himfelf in arms under eee tyrant of 
Gela, in whofe em lo he defeated the Ce ae ns, in a 
At the death of this 
prince he feized the sare of Gela, and quickly made 
himfelf mafter of Syracufe by mcans of fome exiles. In the 
year 480 B.C. when Xer xes invaded ese aie the Carthagi- 
nians fent a very formida able army into Sicily, under Hamilear, 
with a view of recoveriig all the places ce aa formerly 
anaes in that ifland ; but while abe were engaged in the 
ea of Himera, they were attacke elon and en cae 
of thee ee ia ch 
and a 
N. 
had been drawn up on 
The Carthaginians fued re peace, heh: Gelon gr eer 
upon cae ain conditions, one of which was, that they 
fhould henceforth abftain from human facrifices.. Gelon had 
hitherto governed Syracufe under the title of pretor alone, 
oe upon this fignal fuccefs, the people with one voice hailed 
m as king, and pafled a decree, fettling the crown, after his 
ai upon his brothers Hiero and Thrafybules. Upon his 
Een to the thr i 
mote 
died univerfally regretted i ue tie ee 8. was a. 
1 s to have a in ene- 
- the other ftatues of the Syraenn kings were condemned 
e melte —, at the recovery of liberty under Timo- 
eon, Univer 
E NI, in Autos ideal a people of Sarmatia, 
Boryfthenes, according to 
that the Geloni were of 
om their com 
altars of wood; and that every thre years they cele bra ated 
feafts in hour of Bacchus. tilled the =a = 
on corn, and cultivated gardens. . 
GELO. 
