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

GAZA. GELASIUS. 253
PrdelpAum de Origine Turcar um, published With again A. D. 1670. (Hody, De Graecis Ilizstribus
a Latin version by Allatius, in his JIuALurKTa. 8vo. Linguae Graecae, &c. Instauratoribus. 8vo. Lond.
Colon. Ag. 1653. vol. ii. p. 381, &c. A Latin 1742. C. F. Boerneri, De Doctis Hominibus
version by Castalio had been previously published Graecis. 8vo. Lips. 1750; Fabric. Bib. Gr. vol.,with the version of the History of Laonicus Chalco- x. pp. 388-395.) [J. C. M.]
condyles, by Clauserus. Fol. Basil, 1556, p. 181, GEGA'NIA GENS, a very ancient patrician
&c. 4. Epistola Latina ad Citristophor. Per- gens, which traced its origin to the mythical Gyas,
sonam, printed in the Giornale de' Lett. d' Italia, one of the companions of Aeneas. (Serv. ad Virg.
vol. xix. p. 337, 12mo. Ven. 1714; and in the Aen. v. 117.) According to both Livy (i. 30) and
Dissertazioni Vossiane of Apostolo Zeno, 4to. Ven. Dionysius (iii. 29), the Geganii were one of the
1753, vol. ii. p. 1] 39. Some other letters of his are most distinguished Alban houses, transplanted to
*mentioned by Allatius, Contra Creygthon. p. 18; Rome on the destruction of Alba by Tullus Hostiand a Commentarius ad Statuas Philostrati is lius, and enrolled among the Roman patres. The
noticed by Nic. Comnenus, Praenotion Mystagog. name, however, occurs even in the reign of Numa,
p. 187. He also took part in the controversy on who is said to have chosen Gegania as one of the
the comparative merits of the Platonic and Aristo- vestal virgins. (Plut. Num. 10.) Another Gegatelian philosophy; but his Contradictorius Liber nia is mentioned as the wife of Servius Tullius
ad Bessarionem, pro Aristotele, in Plethonem, has (Plut. de Fort. Rom. p. 323), or of Tarquinius
never been printed. Some other unpublished Priscus (Dionys. iv. 7); and a third Gegania ocwritings of his are noticed by Fabricius. curs in the reign of Tarquinius Superbus. (Plut.
His principal translations from Greek into Latin Comp. Lye. c. Num. 3.)
were as follows: 1. Aristotelis de Historia Anima- There appears to have been only one family in.
lium Libri IX.; de Partibus Animlalium Libri I V.; this gens, that of MACERIN Us, many members of
De Generatione Animalium Libri V. In the pre- which filled the highest offices in the state in the
face he calls himself " Theodorus Graecus Thessa- early times of the republic. The last of the family
lonicensis." Fol. Venet. 1476. These translations who is mentioned is M. Geganius Macerinus, who
have been frequently reprinted among the works was consular tribune in B. C. 367; and from that
of Aristotle, with or without the original. 2. Ati- time the name of Geganius does not occur at all in
stotelis Problemata. This version was made under history till the year B. C. 100, when we read of
the pontificate of Nicholas V., and revisbd under one L. Geganius who was killed along with Cn.
that of Sixtus IV.; and was printed at Rome A. D. Dolabella, the brother of Saturninus, in the troubles
1475. The earliest edition mentioned by Fabri- occasioned by the seditious schemes of the latter.
cius is that of Venice. Fol. A. D. 1493. 3. Tteco- (Oros. v. 17.)
phrasti Historia Plantaruns Libri X., and De GELA'NOR (readcvwp), king of Argos, who
Ccausis Plantarum Libri VI. This version, pre- was expelled by Danaus. (Paus. ii. 16. ~ 1,
pared during the pontificate of Nicholas V., was 19. ~ 2, &c.; Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 4; compare
first printed at Treviso, A. D. 1483. (Panzer, DANAUS.) [L. S.]
Annal. Typog. vol. iii. p. 40.) It has been re- GELA'SIUS(reAdc(os),thenameofthreeGreek
princed, with corrections, by Heinsius and Bodaeus. ecclesiastical writers. There were also two Popes
The little book, Theophrasti de Su.ffructibus, Theo- of the name, but neither of them comes within the
doro Gaza Interprete, published by H. Sybold, at limits of the present work.
Strasburg, is merely a reprint of the last four books 1. Bishop of CAESAREIA, in Palestine, author of
of the Historia Plantarum. 4. Alexandri Aphro- a book, KaTa'Avouofwov, Against the Anomoeans
disiei Problematum Libri II., printed at Venice [AETIUS]. Photius distinguishes him from the
(fol. A. D. 1501); and often reprinted. Gaza, in nephew of Cyril mentioned below; but Fabricius
his preface to this translation, rejects the common and Cave identify them. (Phot. Bibl,. Codd. 89,
opinion, that it was the work of Alexander Aphro- 102.)
disiensis, and ascribes it to some later writer; but 2. Bishop of CAESARETA, in Palestine. He
he does not name Alexander Trallianus. [ALEX- was sister's son to Cyril of Jerusalem, by whose
ANDER APHRODISIENSIS]. 5. Aelianus de In- influence or authority he was appointed to his see,
struendis Aciebus. Fabricius does not mention any apparently before A. D. 367. [CYRILLUS of JERUearlier edition of this version than that of Cologne, SALEM.] It was at Cyril's desire that Gelasius
A. D. 1524; but it was printed at Rome as early undertook to compose an ecclesiastical history, as
as 1487, in 4to., by Eucherius Silberus. (Panzer, Photius says he had read in the rpooilcuov sIs TA
Ann. Typ. vol. ii. p. 491.) 6. Clhrysostomi Homiliae.Feerdd'rTv eiKKcArQa0e'71rC)v rreoplat Edeefiou'roi
quinque de Incomprelhensibili Dei Natura. This IIaiucpAov, Preface to the Continuation of t/he Eccleversion is found in several of the editions of Chry- siastical History of Eusebius Pamphili, written by
Bostom's works., In' Fabricius there is a notice of Gelasius himself. It may be observed that Photius
some other unpublished translations by Gaza, as of does not seem to have read the whole work, but
the Aphorismi of Hippocrates, and the Libri de Re only the preface. It is probable that the work is
Militari of the emperor Maurice. referred to by Gelasius of Cyzicus in his History
His versions from Latin into Greek were: 1. of the Council of Nice (i. 7), in the passage "Oye
MdpKov TvAAtou Ktcpcezvosr'Pwuaiouv Kcg'zV I srept~ Iuv'Povoqvos J 7yoiu rexardos raiT a AEsyyel.se:
jpwcs, M. T. Ciceronis Cato sire de Senectute; and from which passage probably arose the statement
2. the'OveLpos trot ZcnLriwIvos, Somnium Sczpionis, mentioned by Photius, but refuted by a reference
of the same author. These were both printed by to dates, that Cyril and his nephew Gelasius had
Aldus Manutiusat Venice, A. D. 1519. 3. A letter translated the Ecclesiastical History of Rufinus
of Pope Nicholas V. to Constantine Palaeologus, the into Greek. Fabricius confounds this Continualast emperor of Constantinople. Both the original tion of Eusebius with the History of the Nicene
and the version are given in the Opuscula Aurea Council, by Gelasius of Cyzicus; but against all
Th/eoogica of Arcudius, 4to. Rome, A. D. 1630, and evidence, for. Photius expressly distinguishes be