Gargăris, a king of the Curetes, who first found the manner of collecting honey. He had a son by his daughter, whom he attempted in vain to destroy. He made him his successor. Justin, bk. 44, ch. 44.
Gargărus (plural, a, orum), a town and mountain of Troas, near mount Ida, famous for its fertility. Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 103.—Macrobius, bk. 5, ch. 20.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 30.
Gargettus, a village of Attica, the birthplace of Epicurus. Cicero, Letters to his Friends, bk. 15, ltr. 16.
Gargĭlius Martialis, an historian.——A celebrated hunter. Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 6, li. 57.
Gargittius, a dog which kept Geryon’s flocks. He was killed by Hercules.
Garĭtes, a people of Aquitain, in Gaul.
Garumna, a river of Gaul, now called Garonne, rising in the Pyrenean mountains, and separating Gallia Celtica from Aquitania. It falls into the bay of Biscay, and has, by the persevering labours of [♦]Louis XIV., a communication with the Mediterranean by the canal of Languedoc, carried upwards of 100 miles through hills, and over valleys. Mela, bk. 3, ch. 2.
[♦] ‘Lewis’ replaced with ‘Louis’
Gastron, a general of Lacedæmon, &c. Polybius, bk. 2.
Gatheæ, a town of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 34.