=Galile´o= [GALILEI], born at Pisa, but lived chiefly in Florence. In 1633 he published his work on the Copernican system, showing that “the earth moved and the sun stood still.” For this he was denounced by the Inquisition of Rome, and accused of contradicting the Bible. At the age of 70 he was obliged to abjure his system, in order to gain his liberty. After pronouncing his abjuration, he said, in a stage whisper, _E pur si muove_ (“It does move, though”). This is said to be a romance (1564-1642). =Galinthia=, daughter of Prœtus, king of Argos. She was changed by the Fates into a cat, and in that shape was made by Hecate her high priestess.—Antonius Liberalis, _Metam_, xxix. =Gallegher=, audacious errand-boy in the office of a daily newspaper. He outwits police and sporting-men, and shows detective genius unequalled by a “professional,” becoming the means of arresting a noted murderer, and driving into town after midnight with the news of this event and of a big prize-fight, sinking exhausted on the office floor with the exclamation, “I beat the town!”—Richard Harding Davis, _Gallegher_ (1890). =Gallegos= [_Gal´.le.goze_], the people of Galacia (once a province of Spain). =Gallice´næ=, priestesses of Gallic mythology, who had power over the winds and waves. There were nine of them, all virgins. =Galligan´tus=, the giant who lived with Hocus-Pocus, the conjuror. When Jack the Giant-killer blew the magic horn, both the giant and conjuror were overthrown.—_Jack the Giant-killer._ =Gallo-ma´nia=, a _furor_ for everything French. Generally applied to that vile imitation of French literature and customs which prevailed in Germany in the time of Frederick II. of Prussia. It is very conspicuous in the writings of Wieland (1733-1813). =Galloping Dick=, Richard Ferguson, the highwayman, executed in 1800. =Galloway= (_The Fair Maid of_), Margaret, only daughter of Archibald, fifth earl of Douglas. She married her cousin William, to whom the earldom passed in 1443. After the death of her first husband, she married his brother James (the last earl of Douglas). =Gallowglasses=, heavy-armed foot-soldiers of Ireland and the western isles; the light-armed troops were called kernes. —— the merciless Macdonwald —— from the western isles Of kernes and gallowglasses is supplied. Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_, act i. sc. 2. =Gallura’s Bird=, the cock, the emblem of Gallura in Sardinia, ruled by Nino di Gallura de’Visconti. Dante meets Nino in purgatory, who sends a message to his daughter, but reproaches the mother with her marriage after his death, to Galeazzo de’Visconti of Milan, whose emblem was a viper. For her so fair a burial will not make The viper which calls Milan to the field, As had been made by shrill Gallura’s bird. Dante, _Purgatorio_, viii.