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

'-ORYNEUS. GULUSSA. 31f.
-Latin, Lips. 1604, 4to. 2. The Paris edition, in under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle,
Greek and Latin, which also contains the works of and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion,
Macarius and Basilof Seleuceia, 1622; fol.' 3. In Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor. (Paus.
Gallandii Biblioth. Patrum, Paris, 1788, folio. i. 21. ~ 9; Serv. ad Virg. EElog. vi. 72; Athen.
There are several editions of his separate works. iv. p. 149; Steph. Byz. s. v rp0vot.) Under the
(Gregorius Nyssen. Vit. S. Greg. Thaum.; Suid. similar, if not the same name, rpvves, Apollo was
s. v.; the ancient ecclesiastical historians; Lard- worshipped in the Hecatonnesi. (Strab. xiii. p.
ner's Gredibifity; Cave, Hist. Lit. sub. ann. 254; 618.) Ovid (Met. xii. 260) mentions a centaur of
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 249; Schriickh, the name of Gryngus. [L. S.]
Christliche Kirchengeschichlte, vol. iv. p. 351; Hoff- GRYNUS, a son of the Mysian Eurypylus, who
mann, Let. Bibl. Script. Graec.) [P. S.] after his father's death invited Pergamus, the son
GREGO'RIUS (rpr'Jdpios), a veterinary sur- of Neoptolemus and Andromache, to assist him
geon, who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or against his enemies. After he had gained a vicfifth century after Christ. Some fragments, which tory over them, he built, in commemoration of it,
are all that remains of his writings, are to be found two towns, Pergamus and Grynus. (Serv. ad Virg.
in the collection of writers on veterinary surgery, Eclog. vi. 72; comp. GRYNEUS.) [L. S.]
first published in Latin by John Ruellius, Paris, GRYPS or GRYPHUS (rpv'I), a griffin, a
1530,. fol., and in Greek by Simon Grynaeus, fabulous, bird-like species of animals, dwelling in
Basil. 1537, 4to. [W. A.: G.] the Rhipaean mountains, between the HyperboGROSPHUS, POMPEIUS, a Sicilian of great reans and the one-eyed Arimaspians, and guarding
wealth, to whom Horace addressed the ode "Otium the gold of the north. The Arismaspians mounted
divos," &c., in which the poet gently reprehends a on horseback, and attempted to steal the gold, and
too great desire for wealth in Grosphus. (Carm. ii. hence arose the hostility between the horse and the
16.) In an epistle to -Iccius, the factor or bailiff griffin. The body of the griffin was that of a-lion,
of M.'Agrippa in Sicily, Horace commends Gros- while the head and wings were those of an eagle.
phus to Iccius as a man whose requests might be This monstrous conception suggests that the origin
safely granted, since he would never ask any thing of the belief in griffins must be looked for in the
dishonorable. The turn of Horace's character of east, where it seems to have been very ancient.
Grosphus resembles Pope's praise of Cornbury,- (Herod. iii. 116, iv. 13, 27; Pans. i. 24. ~ 6. viii.
S " Disdain whatever Cornlbury disdains." 2, ~ 3; Aelian, H. A. iv. 27; Plin. H. N. vii. 2,
x. 70.) Hesiod seems to be the first writer that
(Hor. Ep. i. 12, 22.) [W. B. D.] mentioned them, and in the poem " Arimaspae"'GRY'LLION (rpvAuXov), an artist, who is of Aristeas they must have played a prominent
mentioned, as then living, in Aristotle's will (Diog. part. (Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. 793.) At a later'
Lairt. v.. 15). The passage seems to imply that he period they are mentioned among the fabulous
was a statuary, but Sillig calls him a painter. animals which guarded the gold of India. (Philostr.'
(Catal. Artif. s. V.; comp. Visconti,. Iconographie Vit. Apollon. iii. 48.) The figures of griffins were
Grecque, vol. i. p. 185; R. Rochette, Lettres. Ar- frequently employed as ornaments in works of art;'
cheolog. vol. i. p. 164,. Lettre a' M. Schomr, p. the earliest instance of which we have any record
75.). [P. S.] is the bronze paterawhich the Samians ordered to,
GRYLLUS (rpXAeos'), the elder son of Xe- be made about B. c. 640. (Herod. iv. 152; comp.
nophon. When the war, which broke out between 79.) They were also represented on the helmet
Elis and Arcadia, in B. C. 365, on the subject of of the statue of Athena by Phidias. (Paus.
the Triphylian towns, had rendered a residence at 1. c.) [L. S.]
Scillus no longer safe, Gryllus and his brother Dio- GULUSSA (roxo'o-oasr, roxoras), a Numidian,:
dorus were sent by Xenophon to Lepreum for was the second son of Masinissa, and brother tosecurity. Here. he himself soon after joined them, Micipsa and Mastanabal. In B. C. 172 he was
and went with them to Corinth. [XENOPHON.] Both sent by his father to Rome, and answered the Carthe. young men served with the Athenian cavalry thaginian ambassador's complaints of Masinissa,
at the battle of Mantineia, in B. C. 362, where and his encroachments. The defence' must' have,
Gryllus was slain fighting bravely. It was he, ac- seemed unsatisfactory enough, had not the Roman:
cording to the account of the Athenians and The- senate been indisposed to scrutinise it strictly. In'
bans, who gave Epaminondas his mortal wound, the next year we find him again at Rlome, stating
and he was represented in the act of inflicting it to the senate what forces Masinissa was ready to'
in a picture of the battle by Eupliranor in the furnish for the war with Macedonia, and warning.
Cerameicus. The Mantineians also, though they them against the alleged perfidy of the Carthaginiascribed the death of Epaminondas to Machaerion, ans, who. were preparing, he said, a large fleet, osyet honoured Gryllus with a public funeral and. an tensibly to aid the Romans, but with the intention
equestrian statue, and reverenced his memory, as' of using it on the side to which their own interest
the bravest of all who fought on their side at Man- should seem to point. Again we. hear of his being
tineia. According to Diogenes Lartius, he was sent by his father to Carthage, to require the rescelebrated. after his death in numberless epigrams toration of those who had been exiled for attachand panegyrics. (Diog. Laiirt. ii. 52-55; Xen. ment to his cause. On the death of Masinissa, in:
Hell. vii. 4. ~ 12,.Anab. v. 3. ~ 10, Ep. ad Sot.; B. C. 149, Scipio portioned his royal prerogatives
Diod. xv. 77; Ael. V. H. iii. 3; Plut. Ages. 35.; among his sons, assigning to Gulussa, whom Ap.
Paus. i. 3, viii. 9,. 11, ix. 15.) [E. E.] pian mentions as a skilful general, the decision of
GRYNE, an Amazon, from whom the Gryneian peace and war. In the third Punic war, which
grove in Asia Minor was believed to have derived broke out in the same year, Gulussa joined the
its name, for it was said that Apollo had there Romans, and appears to- have done them good
embraced her. (Serv. ad.Aen. iv. 345.) [L. S.] service. In B. c. 148 he was present at the siege.
GRYNE'US (rp6iesos), a surnalme of - Apollo, of Carthage, and acted as mediator, though unsuc