=Gog´magog=, king of the Albion giants, eighteen feet in height, killed by Corin in a wrestling match, and flung by him over the Hoe or Haw of Plymouth. For this achievement, Brute gave his follower _all_ that _horn_ of land now called Cornwall, Cor´n[w]all, a contraction of Corinall. The contest is described by Drayton in his _Polyolbion_, i. (1612). E’en thus unmoved Stood Corineus, the sire of Guendolen, When, grappling with his monstrous enemy, He the brute vastness held aloft, and bore, And headlong hurled, all shattered, to the sea, Down from the rock’s high summit, since that day Called Lan´-gæma´gog. Southey, _Joan of Arc_, viii. 395. Cornwall means _Cornu Galliæ_ or _Walliæ_—_the horn of Gallia_ or _Wallia_ (g and w being convertible letters,) and Gaul and Wales different forms of the same word. =Gog´magog Hill=, the higher of the two hills some three miles south-east of Cambridge. It once belonged to the Balsham Hills, but, “being rude and bearish, regarding neither God nor man,” it was named in reproach Gogmagog. The legend is that this Gogmagog Hill was once a huge giant, who fell in love with the nymph Granta, and, meeting her alone, told her all his heart, saying: “Sweeting mine, if thou mine own wilt be, I’ve many a pretty gaud I keep in store for thee: A nest of broad-faced owls, and goodly urchins too (Nay, nymph, take heed of me, when I begin to woo); And better far than that, a bulchin two years old, A curled-pate calf it is, and oft could have been sold: And yet besides all this, I’ve goodly bear-whelps tway, Full dainty for my joy when she’s disposed to play And twenty sows of lead to make our wedding-ring;” but the saucy nymph only mocked the giant, and told his love story to the Muses, and all made him their jest and sport and laughter.—Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxi. (1622). =Gold of Tolo´sa= (_The_), ill gains, which never prosper. The reference is to Cæpio, the Roman consul, who, on his march to Gallia Narbonensis, stole from Tolosa (_Toulouse_) the gold and silver consecrated by the Cimbrian Druids to their gods. He was utterly defeated by the Cimbrians, and some 112,000 Romans were left dead on the field of battle (B.C. 106). =Gold Poured down the Throat.= Marcus Licin´ius Crassus, surnamed “The Rich,” one of the first Roman triumvirate, tried to make himself master of Parthia, but being defeated and brought captive to Oro´dês, king of Parthia, he was put to death by having molten gold poured down his throat. “Sate thy greed with this,” said Orodês. Manlius Nepos Aquilius tried to restore the kings of Bithynia and Cappado´cia, dethroned by Mithridātês, but being unsuccessful and made prisoner, he was put to death by Mithridātês by molten gold poured down his throat.