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GALLUS, GAIUS AELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GAIUS AELIUS , See also:

PRAEFECT (praefectus)

praefect of See also:

EGYPT

Egypt 26-24 B.C. By See also:

order of See also:

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus he undertook an expedition to See also:

ARABIA

Arabia See also:

Felix, with disastrous results. The troops suffered greatly from disease, See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat, want of See also:

WATER

water and the obstinate resistance of the in-habitants. The treachery of a See also:

FOREIGN

foreign See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide also added to his difficulties. After six months Gallus was obliged to return to See also:

Alexandria, having lost the greater See also:

PART

part of his force. He was a friend of the geographer See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo, who gives an See also:

account of the expedition (xvi. pp. 780-782; see also Dio See also:

Cassius liii. 29; See also:

Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 32; C. See also:

Merivale, Hist. of the See also:

Romans under the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire, ch. 34; H.

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KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger, Der Feldzug See also:

DES

des A. G. nach dem glucklichen Arabien, 1862). He has been identified with the Aelius Gallus frequently quoted by See also:

Galen, whose remedies are stated to have been used with success in an Arabian expedition.

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