A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

GAIUS.' GALBA. 203
xiii., and the resiilt of his renewed examination from the notes of preceding commentators (Jurisp.
was given to the world by Giischen, in the cele- Antejust. p. 1-186), and by Meerman (Thesauruts,
brated edition of 1824, An improved reprint of vol. vii. p. 669-686). It is edited by Haubold in
this edition, by Lachmann, was published in 1842, the Berlin Jus. Civ. Ante-Just. and by Bocking in
the: editor having completed a critical revision, the Bonn Corp. Jur. Ante-J.
which had been interrupted by the death of GOs- The Breviarium, or LexRom. Wisig., has been
chen. This third editio Goeschleniana is at present itself the theme of a corrupt abridgment of the sethe editio optima. cond order, in base Italian Latin, interesting, perThe civilians of the continent have, from the haps, to a philological student. Those who are
first publication of Gaius, laboured assiduously in anxious to see to what extent an ancient monument
interpreting the text, in composing dissertations may be defaced and deformed, may consult the Lae
on the doctrines contained in it, and in conjectural Ronzana Utinensis, at the end of the fourth volume
supply of the lacznae, but no edition of the whole of Canciani's Leges Barbarorum.' The following
work with a good commentary has yet appeared. may be taken as a favourable specimen: —" Incipit
The commentary of Van Assen (Ed. 2d. Lug. Bat. liber Gagii i. Interpr. Ingenuorum statum unum
1838) extends only to the first book. Heffter's est. Nam libertorum vero trea genera sunt. Inedition of the fourth book, with commentary jenui vero sunt, qui de injenuos parentes nascuntur.
(4to. Berlin, 1827), is valuable. Heffter's edi- Liberti sunt, sicutjam diximus, trea genera: hoc est,
tion of the entire work, without commentary, cive Romanum, et Latine, et Divicicii." [J.T.G.]
was originally intended to form the first part of GALA, a Numidian, father of Masinissa, and
the Bonn Corp. Jur. Antejust., but all the copies king of the Massyli. In B. c. 213, when Syphax,
of this edition have been long since exhausted, and king of the Masaesyli, had joined the Roman alliits place has been supplied by an edition superin- ance, Gala, at the instigation of his son, and to
tended by Lachmann. In Klenze and Bdcking's counterbalance the additional power which Syphax
Gaii et Justiniani Institutiones (4to. Berlin, 1829), had thus gained, listened to the overtures of the
the texts of the two elementary works are placed Carthaginians, and became their ally. Soon after
side by side, but Gaius is made to yield to the this, while Masinissa was aiding the Carthaginians
order adopted by Justinian. Bicking's latest in Spain, Gala died, and was succeeded, according
edition of the Institutes of Gaius (12mo. Bonn, to the Numidian custom, by his brother Oesalces.
1841) is convenient and useful. The editor in the (Liv. xxiv. 48, 49,xxix. 29; App. Pun. 10.) [E. E.I
preface gives a list of dissertations and other pub- GALATEIA (rahdrela). 1. A daughter of
lications which illustrate his author. The most Nereus and Doris. (Hom. II. xviii. 45; Hes:
valuable of these is the learned and imaginative 7/'eog. 251.) Respecting the story of her love of
Huschke's essay, Zur4 Kritik und Interpretatio;n von Acis, see Acis.
Gains Institutionen, in his Studien des Rioz. Rechts 2. A daughter of Eurytius, and the wife of
(8vo. Breslau. 1830). Further information on the Lamprus, the son of Pandion, at Phaestus in
literature connected with Gaius may be found in Crete. Her husband, desirous of having a sonl
Haubold's Instit. Jur. Rom. Priv. Lineam. p. 151. ordered her, if she should give birth to a daughter,
n. (oo), p. 505 (8vo. Lips. 1826), and in Mackel- to kill the infant. Galateia gave birth to a daughdey's Lehrbuclh des Ram. Rechts, p. 52, n. (b) ter, but, unable to comply with the cruel command
(12th ed. Gessen. 1842). There is a German of Lamprus, she was induced by dreams and soothtranslation of the first book, with copious notes of sayers to bring up the child in the disguise of a
little merit, by Von Brockdorff (8vo. Schles. boy, and under the name of Leucippus. When the
1824). There are French translations of the whole maiden had thus grown up, Galatela, dreading the
work by Boulet (Paris, 1826), Domenget (1843), discovery of the seciet and the anger of her bus.
and Pellat (1844). From the forthcoming volume band, took refuge with her daughter in a temple
of notes and commentary, by the last-mentioned of Leto, and prayed the goddess to change the
eminent professor, much is expected. girl into a youth. Leto granted the request, and
In the Lex Romana Wisigothorum, published hence the Phaestians offered up sacrifices to Leto
under Alaric II. in A. D. 506, for the use of the Phytia (i. e. the creator), and celebrated a festival
Roman subjects of -the Westgothic kingdom, the called iKtcgaia, in commemoration of the maiden
Institutes of Gaius appear, remodelled in barbarous having put off her female attire. (Anton. Lib.
fashion. They have been worse treated than the 17.) [L. S.]
Theodosian Code and other legal works introduced GA'LATON (raAcrwv), a Greek painter, whose
into the same collection; for while a barbarous in- picture, representing Homer vomiting, and other
terpretation (scintilla) was subjoined to the text of poets gathering up what fell from him, is menthe other works, Gaius was found to be so full of tioned by Aehan ( V. H. xiii. 22), and by a
antiquated law, that his text, in its original state, scholiast to Lucian (i. p. 499, ed. Wetstein), who
would have been unsuitable to the character of the calls the painter Gelato. He probably lived under
times. Accordingly, it was so altered and mutilated the earlier Ptolemies, and his picture was no doubt
as not to want an interpretatio. The Gothic Epitome intended to ridicule the Alexandrian epic poets.
of Gaius, disfigured and imperfect as it is, is now of (Meyer, Kunstpesch7ichte, vol. ii. p. 193; Muller,
little use, since the discovery of the genuine Insti-.Archiiol. d. Kunst, F 163, n. 3.) [P. S.]
tutes, except for the purpose of understanding an- GALA'XIUS (ra.Adeos), a surname of Apollo
cient quotations made from it, and of assisting in in Boeotia, derived from the stream Galaxius.
the restoration of the valuable original. It con- (Procl. ap. Phot. p, 989; Miiller, 2Orco01n. p. 42,
sists, according to the ordinary division (for the 2d edit.) [L. S.]
manuscripts vary in this point), of two books, and GALBA, the name of a patrician family of the
contains no abstract of the fourth book of the ge- Sulpicia gens.
nuine Gaius, concerning actions. It has been ably 1. P. SULPICIUS, SER. F. P. N. GALBA'MYAX1commented upon by Schulting, who gives a selection nUs, was elected consul for the-year B. c. 2i 1,.ii