Gabēne and Gabiēne, a country of Persia. Diodorus, bk. 19.
Gabia and Gabina. See: [Gabina].
Găbiēnus, a friend of Augustus, beheaded by order of Sextus Pompey. It is maintained that he spoke after death.
Găbii, a city of the Volsci, built by the kings of Alba, but now no longer in existence. It was taken by the artifice of Sextus the son of Tarquin, who gained the confidence of the inhabitants by deserting to them, and pretending that his father had ill-treated him. Romulus and Remus were educated there, as it was the custom at that time to send there the young nobility, and Juno was the chief deity of the place. The inhabitants had a peculiar mode of tucking up their dress, whence Gabinus cinctus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 773; bk. 7, lis. 612 & 682.—Livy, bk. 5, ch. 46; bk. 6, ch. 29; bk. 8, ch. 9; bk. 10, ch. 7.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 709.—Plutarch, Romulus.
Găbīna, the name of Juno, worshipped at Gabii. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 682.
Găbīnia lex, de Comitiis, by Aulus Gabinius the tribune, A.U.C. 614. It required that in the public assemblies for electing magistrates, the votes should be given by tablets, and not vivâ voce.——Another, for convening daily the senate, from the calends of February to those of March.——Another, de Comitiis, which made it a capital punishment to convene any clandestine assembly, agreeable to the old law of the 12 tables.——Another, de Militiâ, by Aulus Gabinius the tribune, A.U.C. 685. It granted Pompey the power of carrying on the war against the pirates, during three years, and of obliging all kings, governors, and states to supply him with all the necessaries he wanted, over all the Mediterranean sea, and in the maritime provinces, as far as 400 stadia from the sea.——Another, de Usurâ, by Aulus Gabinius the tribune, A.U.C. 685. It ordained that no action should be granted for the recovery of any money borrowed upon small interest, to be lent upon larger. This was a usual practice at Rome, which obtained the name of versuram facere.——Another, against fornication.
Gabiniānus, a rhetorician in the reign of Vespasian.
Găbīnius, a Roman historian.——Aulus, a Roman consul, who made war in Judæa, and re-established tranquillity there. He suffered himself to be bribed, and replaced Ptolemy Auletes on the throne of Egypt. He was accused, at his return, of receiving bribes. Cicero, at the request of Pompey, ably defended him. He was banished, and died about 40 years before Christ, at Salona.——A lieutenant of Antony.——A consul, who behaved with uncommon rudeness to Cicero.
Gades (ium), Gadis (is), and Gadīra, a small island in the Atlantic, on the Spanish coast, 25 miles from the columns of Hercules. It was some time called Tartessus and Erythia, according to Pliny, and is now known by the name of Cadiz. Geryon, whom Hercules killed, fixed his residence there. Hercules, surnamed Gaditanus, had there a celebrated temple, in which all his labours were engraved with excellent workmanship. The inhabitants were called Gaditani, and their women were known for their agility of body, and their incontinency. Horace, bk. 2, ode 2, li. 11.—Statius, bk. 3, Sylvæ, poem 1, li. 183.—Livy, bk. 21, ch. 21; bk. 24, ch. 49; bk. 26, ch. 43.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 23.—Strabo, bk. 3.—Cicero, for Cornelius Balbus.—Justin, bk. 44, ch. 4.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 35.—Ptolemy, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 2.
Gādītānus, a surname of Hercules, from Gades. See: [Gades].