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GAB 
and from its being placed at the head, or marking the 
firft found in Guido’s fcale, the whole fcaie took the 
name gamut. 
GA'AL, [byj, Ileb. an abomination. ] Tlje fon of Ebed. 
GA'ARDE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Ag- 
gerhiuis : fifty-fix miles north-weft of Chriftiana. 
GA'ASH, a hill in Paleftine, fitnated in the tribe of 
Ephraim ; on the Tiorth fide of vvhich Joftiua the fiiccef- 
Ibr of Mofes was buried. JfoJl). y.x\v. Judges ,\. <). We 
read of the brooks of Gaafh. 2 Sam. xxiii. 30. 1 C/trcm. xi. 32. 
G A'B A or Gab'des, a city of Paleftine, fituated in the 
tribe of Benjamin. J(^i. xviii. 24, i E/dr, v. 20. 
GABA'El., a man’s name. 
GAB'AI.A, a town of Arabia P'elix ; fixty-foiir miles 
north-north-eaft of Aden, 
GABA'LE, in mythology, a deity worfhipned at He¬ 
liopolis under the figure of a lion, with a radiant head ; 
and it is thus reprefented on many medals of Caracalla. 
GABA'R.^, otGab'dara, [from lap a fepul- 
chre, or mj, Heb. gaiihar, a man.] In antiquity, the dead 
bodies which the Egyptians embalmed, and kept in their 
houfes, efpecially thofe of (uch of their friends as died 
with the reputation of great piety and holinefs, or as mar¬ 
tyrs. See Embalming, vol. vi. p. 352. 
G A B'AR AGE, y. Wrappers in which Irifti goods are 
wrapped. 
GABARD'INE,/! [ j'awartfiVza,. Ital.] A coarfe frock ; 
any mean drefs.—My beft way is to creep under his 
bardine \ there is no other fhelter hereabouts. ShakeJ'pearc. 
You call me mifbeliever, cut-throat dog, 
And fpit upon my Jewifti gabardine. Shakefpeare. 
GAB'ARET, a town of France, in the department of 
the Landes, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrici of 
Mont de Marfan, on the Gelife: five leagues weft of 
Condom, and eight eaft of. Mont de Marfan. 
GABARO'N, a bay on the fouth-weft of Lotiifburg, 
in the ifland of Cape Breton. 
GAB'AROUS BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Cape Breton. Lat. 45. 50. N. Ion. 60. W. 
Greenwich. 
GABASEL'KI, a town of Riiflia, in the government 
of Viborg: thirty fix miles north of Serdopol. 
GAB'ATHA, aman’sname. 
GABA'ZA, a town of Natolia, pleafantly fituated on 
the fide of a hill, from the top of which is a fine profpebt 
of the Archipelago, and part of its numerous illands. 
The whole fpace from the town to the fea, which is about 
ihree miles, is entirely covered with gardens, orchards, 
and vineyards; the value of which is confiderably en. 
hancedby beingin the vicinity ofScutariandConftantinople. 
GAB'BATHA, [Heb. elevated.] The name of a 
place where Jefus Chrift received final fentence of death. 
John xix. 13. 
Tb.GAB'BLE, v.n. {^gabbare, Ital, gabbaren, Diit.] 
To make an inarticulate noife : 
Flocks of fowl, that when the tempefts roar. 
With their hoarie gabbling feek the filent ftiore. Diyden. 
To prate loudly without meaning.—^Have no wit, man¬ 
ners, norhonefty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of 
night ? ShakeJ^eare. 
Which made fome think, when he 6,\A gabble. 
He had heard three labourers of Babel. Hudibras, 
GAB'BLE,/. Inarticulate noife like that of brute ani¬ 
mals.—Not to know what we fpeak one to another, fo we 
feem to know, is to know ftraight our purpofe : cliough’s 
language, gabble enough , and good enough. Shake/pean.-- 
Loud talk without meaning ; 
Forthwith a hideous g-aii/e rifes loud' 
Among the builders; each to other calls,. 
Not underftood. Milton, 
GAB'BLER,y. A prater; a chattering fellow. 
GA'BEL, /, ^gabelltf Fr. gabella^ Ital, sapftl, Sax, 
GAB 
a tribute.] An excife ; a tax. This word had the fame 
fignification among our ancient writers, as gahelk l>ad 
formerly in France; and the ternr has been varioufly 
ufed ; as for rent, cuftom, fervice, &c. Where it was a 
payment of rent, thofe who paid it were ittxneA gahla- 
tores. Co. Lit. 213. It is by (ome authors diftinguiflied 
from tribute; gabel being a tax on moveables, tribute oi» 
immoveables. . When the word was formerly ufed in 
France without any addition to it, it fignified the tax-on 
fait ; though afterwards it w’as applied 10 all other taxes. 
—The of Naples are very high on oil, wine, and 
tobacco. Addilbn. 
GA'BEL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bole- 
flaw, where prince Henry entered Bohemia, after having 
gained an advantage over the Anftrians in the month of 
July, 177S: nine miles north-north-eaft of Leypa, and for¬ 
ty-five north of Prague. 
GA'BERSTORF, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Sriria : ten miles weft-fouth-weft of Gnaa. 
GA'BES. See Cabes. 
GA'BIAN, a village of France, in the department of 
the Hcraiilt, with a mineral fpring ; near it from a rock 
ifFues petroleum, or native tar; feven miles north-weft of 
Pezenas. 
GA'BII, in ancient geography, a city of the Volfci, 
now extindf, taken by'tlie artifice of Sextus, the fon of 
Tarquin, who gained the confidence of the inhabitants, 
by deferting to them, and pretending tltat his father had 
ill-treated him. Romulus and Remus were educated 
there, as it was the cuftom at that time to fend there the 
young nobility, and Juno was the chief deity of the place. 
The Inhabitants had a peculiar mode of tucking up their 
drefs, whence Gabinus cin&us. VirgU, 
GA'BIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Rawa : 
forty miles weft of Warfaw. 
GABIN'DA, or Kapinda, a town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Loango. 
GABIN'IAN LAWS, in Roman antiquity, laws in- 
ftituted upon feveral occafions by perfons of the name of 
Gabinius, The firft was the Gabinialex de Comitiis, by A, 
Gabinius the tribune, in the year of Rome 614-. It re¬ 
quired that in the public aftemblies for eledling magif- 
trates, the votes fhould be given by tablets, and not viva 
voce. Another, de Comitiis, w’hich made it a capital punifh- 
ment to convene any clandeftine alfembly, agreeable to 
the old law of the twelve tables. Another, de Militia, by 
A. Gabinius the tribune, year of Rome 685. It granted 
Pompey the power of cuiTying on the war againft the pi¬ 
rates during three years, and of obliging all kings, govern¬ 
ors, and ftates, to fupply him with the neceftaries he 
wanted, overall the Mediterranean fea, and in the mari¬ 
time provinces as far as 400 ftadiafrom the fea. Another, 
de Ufurd, by Aiil. Gabinius the tribune, year of Rome 
685. It ordained th.it no aftion fhould be granted for the 
recovery of money borrowed upon fmall intereft to be lent 
upon larger. Tlris was an ufual practice at Rome, vvhich 
obtained the name of verfuram faeeie. Another againft' 
fornication. See the article Rome. 
GABIN'IUS (Aulus), a Roman chief, who arrived at' 
the confulate before Chrift 58; and in the next year, 
through the intrigues of Cloditis, obtained the govern¬ 
ment of the rich province of Syria. After exhatifting 
that unhappy country by Ivis opprefitons, he carried his 
arms into Judea againft Alexander, fon of Ariftobulus, 
whom he reduced to fuc for peace; and he re-eftabliflied 
Hyrcan in the dignity of pontiff, and regulated the gov-' 
ernment of that country to his own mind. He next, up¬ 
on promife of a large fum, agreed to replace on the ' 
throne of Parthia, Mithridates, who had been expelfed 
by his brother Orodes. He had crolfed the Euphrates 
upon this expedition, when he was overtaken by Ptolemy 
Auletes king of Egypt, who, on Poinpey’s recommenda¬ 
tion, came to perfuade Gabinius to undertake his re-eftab-- 
lilbmeiu in his kingdom, then ufurped by his fon-in-law, 
Archelaus.- The Roman chief, for the enormous bribe 
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