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- Giarus,
- A little yle in the sea Ionium, whervnto men con∣demned were exiled.
- Giganteus, a, um,
- Of, or belonging to Gigantes.
- Gigantomachia,
- A battayle which Gigantes prepared a∣gaynst the Goddes, as Poets feigned.
- Gigas, antis,
- masculin. gener. A gyaunt, a man or woman farre exceeding the common stature of men, of whome as well holye Scripture, as other credible writers doe make mention. Plutarchus wryteth, that Sertorius, a Romayne captayne, being in Mauritania, brake downe the sepulchre of Antheus, and therin was found the body of a man, of such monstruous greatnesse, that the same capitayne méeued with a reuerent feare, caused the monument to be réedified. Plinie writeth, that in Creta, an hyll fell downe, and there was founde the bo∣die of a man, in length xlvj. cubites, which was suppo∣sed of some to be the bodie of Orion, of some the bodie of Etion. Sabellicus affirme that was reported to him of a credible person, that in the south part of Candie, was founde vnder a great trée, the heade of a man as great as a wine vessell called Dolium. Howe great that vessell is at Venice, where Sabellicus wra••e, I can not tell: with vs it is taken to be the greatest vessell, which was sometime a tunne. But he sayth, one of the téeth of that heade remayneth at Venice, of woonderfull great∣nesse, by the which, they that sée it may make some gesse to the greatnesse of the head. Solinus remembreth, that in the warres, which the Romaynes had in Candie, in a gre••t rage of water, the grounde being broken vp, there was founde the bodye of a man, in length .xxxiij. cubites: which Flaccus & Metellus (then captaynes of the Romaynes hoste) beholding, woondered, which they before woulde not beléeue, whan they onely hearde it reported. And here in Englande at a monasterie of regular chanons▪ called Iuy Church, two myles from the citie of Sarisburie, were séene the bones of a dead man, founde déepe in the grounde where they digged stone, which being ioyned togither, was in length .xiij. foote and x. ynches. Whereof one of the téeth was in quantitie of a great Walnut.
- Gilo,
- A citie, the people where of be called Gilonites.
- Gillus,
- A certayne man of Tarentum.
- Gion,
- A great riuer in Aegipt, otherwise called Nilus.