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and with tile rest of Aristotle's works at Basel, derived from the bridge (y'pvpa), which was built
1i538. 18. Opus insigne Beati Patris Cyrilli over the river at this point. Such a notion, howPatriarchcae Alexandriae in Evangelitem Joannis, ever, is quite untenable, since (to mention no other
fol. Paris, 1508. Of the twelve books of which reason) " bridge " appears to have been a comparathis work consists George translated the first tively recent meaning of'yxpvpa. It is just posfour and the last four; the remainder were trans- sible that the name may have contained the idea of
lated by Jodocus Clichtoveus, who edited the work. separation. We find that there were temples at
19. Joannis CkGrysostomni de Laudibus et Excellentia Athens, which belonged peculiarly to these GephySancti Pauli Hoiniliae quatuor per Georq. Trape- raei, to the exclusion of the rest of the Athenians,
zu'ntiumz e Graeco traductae, fol. Leipzig, 1510. especially one to Demeter ACHAEA, whose wor20, Praelarumn Opus Cyrilli Alex. qui Thesaurus ship they seem to have brought with them from
nunupatur,; fol. Paris, 1513. This version of the Boeotia. (Herod. v. 61; comp. Plut. de Is. et
work of Cyril on the' Trinity has been often re- Osir. 69; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p.. 1225.) Suidas
printed. 21. Almayesti Ptolemaei Libri XIII.,fol. (s. v. Aopv KqpISCELOY) speaks of the Athenians
Venice, 1515. 22. Sti Gregorii Nysseni De Vitae having been ordered by an oracle, when they were
Perfectione, sive Vita Moysis, 4to. Vienna, 1517. assailed by Eumolpus, to send away every tenth
23. Sti Basi/ii Magni adversus Apologianz Eunoomii man of the Gephyraei to Delphi; for it is clear
Antirrheticus, Libri V. The version of the third that or'bcKarsuiEvvrES is the right reading of the
book was printed with the Acta Concilii Florentini, passage in question. (Comp. Eustath. ad Il. iii.
and other pieces, fol. Rome, 1526; and the whole p. 408; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 214.) Those who
version has been printed in some Latin and Graeco- were thus offered to the god were sent probably as
Latin editions of the works of Basil. 24. Histo- sacred slaves for the service of the temple. (Comp.
ria Sanctorum Barlaam et Josaphat, subjoined to MUller, Dor. ii. 2. ~ 14.) [E. E.]
the works of Joannes Damascenus, fol. Basel, 1548. GERAEUS (rsjalos), a poet of Cyrene, who
So wretchedly is this version executed, that doubts wrote an epigram on the poet Aratus. (Jacobs,
have been cast upon its authorship. The reputa- Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 897.) [P. S.]
tion of George as a translator is, however, very low. GERANA (repdva), a Pygmean woman, and
Beside the errors which resulted from haste, he wife of their king, Nicodamas, by whom she beappears to have been very unfaithful, adding to his came the mother of Mopsus (according to Boeus, ap.
author, or cutting out, or perverting passages almost Athen. ix. p. 393, of a tortoise). Being highly esat will. teemed and praised for her beauty among the
Among his unpublished translations are several Pygmies, she despised the gods, especially Arteof Aristotle's works, including the Problenlata, mis and Hera, who in revenge metamorphosed her
Physica, De Anima, De Aninmalibus, De Genera- into a crane. In this state she always fluttered
tione et Corruptione; also the De Legibus and the about the place in which her son Mopsus dwelt,
Parmenides of Plato. His version of Plato's work, until she was killed by the Pygmies. This is said
De Legibus, was severely criticised by Bessarion in to have been the origin of the war between the
his Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis; and his Cranes and the Pygmies. (Anton. Lib. 16, who
version of Aristotle's De Animalihus is said to have calls her Oeno4i; Eustath.'ad Hom. p. 1322; Ov.
been used by Theodore Gaza, though without ac- MIet. vi. 90.) [L. S.]
knowledgment, in the preparation of his own ver- GERAISIMUS, a writer of uncertain date, ausion. (Boissard, Icones Viror. Illustr., pars i. thor of a Chronographia or Chronicon, from which
133, &c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii., Appendix, by " a passage worthy' of note concerning the eruption
Gaery and Wharton, p. 149; Hody, De Graecis of Mt. Vesuvius, in the reign of Titus, and the
Illustribus Linguae Graecae, &c., Instauratoribus; cause of subterraneous fires, according to the opiBoernerus, De Doctis Hominibus G(raecis, Litte- nion of the Christians of that time," &c., is quoted
rarum Graecarnum in Italia Instauratoribus; Fabric. in the Eclogae Asceticae of Joannes the patriarch,
Bibi. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 102, 242, vol. vii. p. 344, extant in MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna.
vol. viii. pp. 76, 552, 571, vol. ix. pp. 22, 103, Fabricius notices one or two other persons of the
454, vol. xi. p. 397; Allatius, Diatrib. de Georgiis, name. (Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 630.) [J. C. M.]
apud Fabric. vol. xii. p. 70, &c.; Panzer, Annales GERMA'NICUS CAESAR, the elder, a son of
Typographici.) Nero Claudius Drusus, was nephew of the emperor
49. XIPHILINUS. [XIPHILINUS.] Tiberius, and brother of the emperor Claudius. His
50. ZEGABENUS. [ZEGABENUS.] [J. C. M.] birth was most illustrious. From his father and
GEPHYRAEI (rFqvOpaoL), an Athenian fa- paternal grandmother (the empress Livia), he inmily or clan, to which Harmodius and Aristogeiton herited the honours of the Claudii and the Drusi,
belonged. (Herod. v. 55.) The account they gave while his mother, the younger Antonia, was the
of themselves was that they came originally from daughter of the triumvir Antony, and the niece of
Eretria. Herodotus believed them to be of Phoe- the emperor Augustus. [See the genealogical
nician descent, and to have been of the number of table, Vol. I. p. 1076.] He was born in B.c. 15,
those who followed Cadmus into Boeotia. He probably in September, for his son Caligula named
states (comp. Strab. ix. p. 404) that they ob- that month Germanicus, in honour of his father.
tained the territory of Tanagra for their portion, (Suet. Cal. 1, 15.) His praenomen is unknown;
and that being driven thence by the Boeotians, nor can his original cognomen be ascertained, for
they came to Athens, where they were admitted to the imperial family began now to be above the
the rights of citizenship, subject only to a few ordinary rules of hereditary name. By a decree of
trifling disqualifications. (Herod. v. 57; Suid. s. v. the senate, the elder Drusus, after his death, rereqpvpis.) The place of their settlement was on the ceived the honourable appellation Germanicus,
banks of the Cephisus, which separated the terri- which was also granted to his posterity. (Dion
tory of Athens from that of Eleusis, and their Cass. lv. 2.) It seems at first to have been exname, according to the Etymologicon Magnum, was elusively assumed by the elder:son, who afterwards
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