Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Galea a helmet, a casque. The helmet was originally made of skin or leather, whence is supposed
• Galerus or GALERUM, dim. GALERICULUM is probably connected with galea, and so with γαλέη (cf. the
• Galli the eunuch priests of Cybele or the Great Mother, whose worship, so far as it can be. trac
• Gallicae sc. soleae or crepidae, were a kind of low shoes intermediate between the calcei, which we
• Gamelia . The father of the bridegroom or the bridegroom himself gave a feast (γαμηλία, Hesych. su
• Gausape GAUSAPA, or GAUSAPUM, a kind of thick cloth, baize, or frieze, with the nap much longer on
• Geleontes the name of one of the four old-Ionic tribes in Attica. We shall here discuss only the for
• Gemma a gem or precious stone (Greek, λίθος: there is no Greek word for gems as distinguished fr
• Genos . The word γένος, connected etymologically with γένω, γίγνομαι, has reference primarily to
• Gens The word gens, connected etymologically with geno and gigno, signifies primarily an aggreg
• Geomori is the name of the second of the three classes into which the inhabitants of Attica were a
• Gerousia the council of elders (γέροντες), was the name of the Senate in most Doric states, and was
• Gerron properly signified anything made of wicker-work. 1. The name of the Persian shields, which
• Gladiatores were men who fought with swords in the circus, the forum, or in later times in the amphith
• Gladius a sword or glaive, by the Latin poets called ensis. The oldest Greek swords were of course
• Gradus a step, as a measure of length, was half a pace (passus), and contained 2 1/2 feet, Greek
• Graecostasis the station of the Greeks, was a place in the Roman forum where ambassadors stood to hear
• Grammateus a secretary or clerk, the name of many officials of various kinds in Athens and other Gree
• Graphe in its most general acceptation, comprehends all state trials and criminal prosecutions wh
• Groma was the instrument from which the Roman gromatici or land-surveyors took their name. The w
• Guttus a vessel with a narrow mouth or neck, from which liquids were poured in drops; hence its n
• Gymnasium . The whole education of a Greek youth was divided into three parts: grammar, music, and g
• Gymnesii or GYMNETES (γυμνήσιοι, or γυμνῆτες) were a class of bond-slaves at Argos, who may be comp
• Gymnopaedia or--AE (γυμνοπαιδία or-- αι: always plural in the best writers, Hdt. 6.67; Thuc. 5.83; Xen
• Gynaeconomi γυναικονόμοι: the form γυναικοκόσμοι only in Pollux, 8.112) were magistrates in many Greek