290 GEL 
GEIS'ZLINGEN. See Geislingen. 
GEITH'AYN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Leipzig; twenty miles 
fouth-foiith-eafi: of Leipzig, and forty weft of Drefden. 
Lat. 51. I. N. Ion. 30. -25. E. Ferro. 
GEKELEMUEKPECHU'ENK, a town of the De¬ 
laware Indians, on a creek of the fame name, a head 
water of the Mufkingum. This was the northernmoft 
Moravian fettlement on Miilkingum river : twelve miles 
north-eaft by north of Salem, and feventy-eight north 
w'efterly of Pittthiirg. 
GE'LA, a town on thefonthern parts of Sicily, about 
ten miles from tlie fea, according to Ptolemy, which 
received its name from a fmall river in the neighboiir- 
liood, called Gelas. It was built by a Rhodian and Cretan 
colony, 713 years before the chriftian era. Afterithad 
continued in exiftence 404 years, Phintias, tyrant of 
Agrigentum, carried the inhabitants to Phintias, a town 
in the neighbourhood, which he had founded, and he 
employed the ftones of G^ela to beautify his own city. : 
Phintias was alfo called Gela. The inhabitants were 
called Gelenfes, Gcloi, and Gelani. Virgil. 
GEL'AllLE, adj. [from Lat.] What may be 
congealed, or concreted into a gelly. 
GELA'LA, yi in botany. See Erythrina. 
GELA'NOR, a king of Argos, w’ho fucceeded his 
father, and was deprived of his kingdom by Danaus the 
Egyptian. Pavfanias. 
GELAS'INUS, J. [Gr. from yeXau, to laugh.] An 
epithet, in phyfiology, of the four middle fore-teeth, 
becaufe they are Ihewn in laughter. 
GELA'SIUS I. pope of Rome, an African by birth, 
admitted to the papal dignity in 492, on the death of 
Felix III. to whom he had been fecretary. He was the 
author of various writings, ftill extant: among which 
are Sixteen Letters, and feveral fragments of letters, di- 
redled to dift'erent public charadters; a treatife, De Ana- 
thematis Vinculo-, A Difcpurfe'againft the Senator Andro- 
machus, and other Romans, w'ho wifhed to reftore the 
feaft called lupercalia, which Gelafius had fiipprelfed ; 
A Treatife againft the Pelagian Herefy ; and An Ac¬ 
count of the Circumftances which took place on the Ab- 
folution of the Prelate Mifenus. The above-mentioned 
pieces are all inferred in the fourth volume of the'Co/- 
leElio Conciliorum. But the m.oft celebrated of this pon- 
titf’s prodmflions is A Treatife againft Eutyches and 
Neftorius, concerning the two Natures in Chrift. Se¬ 
veral catholic writers, among others Baronins and Bel- 
larmine, liave attempted to prove that this is not a ge¬ 
nuine produdtion of this Gelafius, butistobe attributed 
to Gelafius of Cyzicus. In Cave and Dupin, however, 
the reader may find the moft fatisfadlory proofs of its ge- 
luiinenefs. The treatife itfelf is inferred in the eighth 
volume of the Bibliotk. Pair, and in the. Antidotuni adverfus 
Harefes, publilhed at Bafil in 1328, foli'o. Gelafius alfo 
is thought to have been the author of the Codex Sacra- 
mentarius, which is a collcftion of fuch forms of public 
prayers and adminiftration of the facraments as were in 
life in the church of Rome in his time, digefted in a new 
order, and including many additional forms of his own. 
The manuicript of this Codex lay hid unnoticed for 
many ages, until, in 1562, upon the difperlion of the 
Florentine library, it fell into the hands of Paul Petau, 
by whole fon it was placed in the library of Chriftina 
queen of Sweden. By that princefs it was entrufted to 
Jofeph Maria Thomafius, who printed it for the firft 
time at Rome, in 1680, 4to. In 1685 it was reprinted at 
Paris, under the infpedtion of father John Mabillon, to¬ 
gether with fome other ancient liturgies, and very learned 
diflertations on the old Gallican liturgy, in one volume 
4to. 
GELA'SIUS 11. pope, defeended from an illuftrious 
family at Gaeta in Campania, of which city he was a na- 
Sive- Pijs chriftian name was John, and the furname by 
GEL 
which he was commonly diftinguiftied before his eleva¬ 
tion to the pontificate was taken from the place of his 
birth. In early life he embraced the monaftic ftate 
among the Benedictines at Monte Caftino, where he ap¬ 
plied himfelf with great diligence to his ftudies, and ac¬ 
quired a high charadter for learning, abilities, and vir¬ 
tue. Upon the death of pope Pafchal in 1118, John of 
Gaeta was unanimoufly chofen his fucceflbr by the car¬ 
dinals and Roman clergy, when he took the name of 
Gelafius II. He however held this dignity but little 
more than one year ; for being attacked by the pleurify, 
he caufed himfelf to be carried to the monaftery of 
Clugny, where he died in January mg. There are 
extant fix Letters of his in the tenth volume of the 
ColleElio Concil. and The Life of Erafmus bifliop of Gaeta, 
in Latin profe, and thofe of Anatolia and Casfarius, in 
Latin verfe. The pieces laft mentioned were publiflred 
at Rome, with the Life of Gelafius, by the'abbot Con- 
ftantine Cajetan, in 1639. 
GELA'SIUS, bifliop ofCsefarea, in Paleftine, nephew 
of St. Cyril of Jerufalem, fucceeded Euzoius in the fee 
of Caefarea in the year 380. Theodoret fpeaks in high 
terms of his charafter, and praifes a homily of his on the 
Epiphany, of which he has preferyed a fragment in his 
third dialogue concerning Herefies. St. Jerome alfo 
claffes him among the ecclefiaftical writers of his age, 
and commends him for the corredinefs and polifli of his 
ftyle, but fays that he would not publifli his works. 
According to father Labbe, fome fragments of the 
writings of this bifliop, explanatory of the Apoftles’ 
Creed, and of the traditions of the church, are to be 
found in the Greek colledtion of teftimonies, under the 
name of John Damafeenus, in the Codex Claromont. 
Photius alfures us, that he had read a tranflation into 
Greek by this author, of the two books in continuation 
ofEufebius, written by Ruffinus. Fabricius, however, 
maintains, that the work which Photius read, was no 
other than the Hiftory of the Council of Nice; and he 
alks, how the hypothefis that this bifliop of Caefarea 
fliould have been the tranflator of Ruflinus’s Hiftory is 
to be reconciled with chronology ? fince the latter was 
not given to the public till the year 400, and Gelafius 
was dead in 394. 
GELA'SIUS, furnamed Cyzicenus, from the place 
of his birth, was the fon of a prelbyter of the church 
at Cyzicum, and flouriflied about the year 476. By 
fome writers he is faid to have been bifliop of Casfarea, 
in Paleftine ; but others, and thofe particularly who ap¬ 
pear to have examined with the greateft care the circum¬ 
ftances related concerning him, make no mention of his 
having been raifed to the epifcopal dignity. When 
young, he found in his father’s pofTeflion a manufeript 
containing an account of the proceedings of the council 
of Nice, which had formerly belonged to Dalmatius bi¬ 
fliop of Cyzicum. As the Catholics were at that time 
perfecuted by the Eutychians, under the countenance of 
the emperor Bafilifeus, and as that fe6l boafted that the 
decrees of the council of Nice were favourable to their 
principles, he determined to draw up a new hiftory of 
that council, with the defign of confuting their repre- 
fentations. This hiftory was publiflied at Paris, by Ro¬ 
bert Balfour, a Scotchman, in Greek and Latin, with 
notes, in 1559, oftavo ; audit is inferted in the fecond 
volume of the ColleBio Concilior. 
GELAS'MUS,y. [Gr. from ysXau, to laugh.] That 
fpecies of infanity which burfts forth in violent- laughter, 
without any apparent orafTignable caufe. 
GEL'ATINE or Gelat'inous, adj. \_gelatus, Lat.] 
Formed into a jelly ; vifeous; ftiff and cohefive.—That 
pellucid gelatinous fubftance is an excrement caft off from 
the flioals offifli that inhabit the main. Woodward .—You 
fliall always fee their eggs laid carefully up in that fper- 
matic gelatine matter, in whicli they are repofited. 
Derham. 
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