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- Gyarus, i, or Gyra, ae.
- Looke Giarus.
- Gyas,
- The name of a Troyane.
- Gygeus,
- A lake of Lydia.
- Gygemorus,
- A little hill not farre from Thessaly.
- Gyges,
- The sonne of Daseylus, one of the seruauntes of Candaules, king of Lydia (as Herodotus wryteth) or his companion (as Trogus rehearseth) was also king of Lydia, by this meanes: Cādaules had a wy••e, whom for the inordinate loue he bare to hir, he supposed to be the fayrest woman liuing. On a tyme he praysed his wyues beautie vnto Gyges, adding thereto, that he might the better beléeue him, he woulde cause him to sée hir naked. But Gyges refused, disswading as much as he coulde Candaules from that folly, with ryght wyse exhortations. But Candaules obstinately persisting in his foolish fantasie, dyd sette Gyges in a secrete place, where he behelde his wyfe naked, going to bed. And as Gyges departed, the Ladie behelde him. And finally the matter disclosed vnto hir by hir husbande, she intended to be reuenged. For in that countrey it was an intolle∣rable reproche to a man or woman, to be séene naked. Wherefore calling vnto hir such of hyr seruauntes, as she speciallye trusted, she sent for Gyges: who beyng come, she proposed vnto him this election, eyther he him∣selfe to be slayne, or else to promise to slea Candaules, and take hir to his wyfe, and the realme with hir: which he abhorring, and a good whyle resisting with sundrye perswasions, at the last he chose, rather than to die him∣selfe, to slea Candaules, as he did lying in his bedde, by the meanes of the Quéene, whome he tooke to his wife, and was king of Lydia. Plato libro. 2. de iusto, telleth that Gyges had a ring, of such vertue, that when the broder parte thereof was tourned to the palme of hys hande, he was séene of no man, but he might sée all thinges: and when he tourned the ring on the contrarye part, he was himselfe séene openly: by meanes whereof he slue Candaules, and committed adultery wyth hys wife. There was also an other Gyges, a great gyaunt, and brother of Briareus.
- Gymnosophistae,
- Philosophers of Indie, which went al∣wayes naked.
- Gyndes,
- A great ryuer of Assyria, which Cyrus caused be deuided into xlvj. channelles or streames.
- Gytheum,
- A towne which Hercules and Appollo buyl∣ded togither, and the inhabitaunts of the same towne be called Gytheares.