1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Gellius Aulus

A Roman grammarian in the age of M. Antoninus. He wrote a work called Noctes Atticae, which he composed at Athens.

Gemoniae or Gemonii (Gradus). A flight of steps cut out of the Aventine, down which the bodies of criminals strangled in the prison were dragged, and afterwards thrown into the Tiber.

Geneva or Genava (Geneva). The last town of the Allobroges, on the frontiers of the Helvetii, situated on the south bank of the Rhone, at the spot where the river flowed out of the Lacus Lemannus. There was a bridge here over the Rhone.

Genitrix (The Mother). Used by Ovid as a surname of Cybele, in the place of mater, or magna mater; but it is better known as a surname of Venus, to whom Caesar dedicated a temple at Rome, as the mother of the Julia gens.

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