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GAULS

golz (Galatai):

Galatia in Asia Minor is literally the Gallia of the East; its inhabitants are called Galli by Roman writers, just as the inhabitants of ancient France are called Galatai by Greek writers. In some manuscripts in 2 Timothy 4:10, eis Gallian is read for eis Galatian.

The emigration of the Gauls from Europe and their settlement in the central region of the peninsula of Asia Minor are somewhat obscure subjects, but the ancient authorities leave no doubt of the main facts. In 1 Maccabees 8:2 it is difficult to say whether Judas Maccabeus is referring to the Gauls of Europe or the Gauls of Asia Minor. Both became finally subject to the Romans, and about the same time.

It was in 191 B.C. that Gallia Cisalpina was reduced to the form of a Roman province, and in 189 B.C. occurred the defeat of Antiochus, king of Asia. Mommsen argues that the reference is to the Gauls in the North of Italy, from the circumstance that they are mentioned as being under tribute to the Romans, and also from their mention in connection with Spain. Not much, however, can be argued from this, as the notice of them is in a manner rhetorical, and the defeat of Antiochus is mentioned practically in the same connection. In APC 2Macc 8:20 the reference is without doubt to the Asiatic Gauls or Galatians, as they are more commonly called. In the Maccabean period they were restless and fond of war, and often hired themselves out as auxiliaries to the Asiatic kings.

J. Hutchison

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Letter Xcii. To the Italians and Gauls.
... TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION. Letter XCII. To the Italians
and Gauls. 1. To our right godly and holy brethren ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter xcii to the italians.htm

Of the Disasters which Vexed the Roman Republic after the ...
... Where were they when the Gauls took, sacked, burned, and desolated Rome?
Where were they when that memorable pestilence wrought ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the disasters which.htm

Argument: the Object of all Nations, and Especially of the Romans ...
... Ceres; the Phrygians, Mater; [1730] the Epidaurians, ??sculapius; the Chald??ans;
Belus; the Syrians, Astarte; the Taurians, Diana; the Gauls, Mercurius; the ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter vi argument the object of.htm

Fragments of Lactantius
... subject. The Gauls, he says, were from ancient times called Galatians, from
the whiteness of their body; and thus the Sibyl terms them. ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/fragments of lactantius.htm

I Therefore Bent My Steps Toward the Hut which I had Beheld from a ...
... But it is unkind of you to try to force us Gauls to live after the fashion of angels;
and yet, through my own liking for eating, I could believe that even the ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter iv i therefore bent.htm

"Well Then, when I Entered Upon the Nearest Parts of the Desert...
... There I saw what ye Gauls, perchance, may not believe"a pot boiling without fire
[101] with the vegetables which were being got ready for our dinner: such is ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xiii well then when.htm

Accordingly, the Emperor Orders a Synod to Assemble at Ariminum...
... Imperial [376] officers, therefore, being sent through Illyria, Italy, Africa, and
the two Gauls, four hundred and rather more Western bishops were summoned or ...
/.../life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xli accordingly the emperor.htm

Of the Gods Peculiar to the Romans.
... The Romans, being besieged by the Gauls, made engines for throwing weapons of the
hair of women; and on this account they erected an altar and temple to Venus ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xx of the gods peculiar 2.htm

Of the Usurpers Magnentius and Vetranio.
... the western parts called Magnentius, [342] who by treachery slew Constans, the emperor
of the western division of the empire, at that time residing in the Gauls ...
/.../chapter xxv of the usurpers magnentius.htm

What Say Ye, O Interpreters of Sacred and of Divine Law? are they ...
... Shortly before the Gallic invasion, bc 390, a voice was heard at the dead of night
announcing the approach of the Gauls, but the warning was unheeded. ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/28 what say ye o.htm

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Gauls
...GAULS. ... In 1 Maccabees 8:2 it is difficult to say whether Judas Maccabeus is
referring to the Gauls of Europe or the Gauls of Asia Minor. ...
/g/gauls.htm - 7k

Galatia (6 Occurrences)
... inhabitants Galli. They were an intermixture of Gauls and Greeks, and hence
were called Gallo-Graeci, and the country Gallo-Graecia. The ...
/g/galatia.htm - 23k

Gaulonitis

/g/gaulonitis.htm - 9k

Gaunt (7 Occurrences)

/g/gaunt.htm - 8k

Galatian (3 Occurrences)
... (a.) of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of
Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. ...
/g/galatian.htm - 7k

Rome (12 Occurrences)
... 1. Original Roman State: The traditional chronology for the earliest period of Roman
history is altogether unreliable, partly because the Gauls, in ravaging ...
/r/rome.htm - 43k

Antiochus
... For the victories of his elephant corps over the Gauls, who had settled in
Asia Minor, he received the surname of Soter ("Deliverer"). ...
/a/antiochus.htm - 17k

Minor (2 Occurrences)
... a Celtic island amidst the waves of eastern peoples, and remained so in internal
organization even under the (Roman) empire." But these Gauls came under strong ...
/m/minor.htm - 62k

Asia (22 Occurrences)
... a Celtic island amidst the waves of eastern peoples, and remained so in internal
organization even under the (Roman) empire." But these Gauls came under strong ...
/a/asia.htm - 71k

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