The Getae are described by Herodotus as the most valiant and upright of the Thracian tribes; but what chiefly struck Greek inquirers was their belief in the immortality of the soul (hence they were called [Greek: athanatizontes]) and their worship of Zalmoxis (or Zamolxis), whom the euhemerists of the colonies on the Euxine made a pupil of Pythagoras. They were very fond of music, and it was the custom for their ambassadors the priests to present themselves clad in white, playing the lyre and singing songs. They were experts in the use of the bow and arrows while on horseback. See E. R. Rösler, "Die Geten und ihre Nachbarn," in _Sitzungsberichte der k. Akad. der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Classe_, xliv. (1863), and _Romänische Studien_ (Leipzig, 1871); W. Tomaschek, "Die alten Thraker," in above _Sitzungsberichte_, cxxviii. (Vienna, 1893); W. Bessel, _De rebus Geticis_ (Göttingen, 1854); C. Müllenhoff in Ersch and Gruber's _Allgemeine Encyclopädie_; T. Mommsen, _Hist. of Rome_ (Eng. trans.), bk. v. ch. 7. GETHSEMANE (Hebr. for "oil-press"), the place to which Jesus and His disciples withdrew on the eve of the Crucifixion. It was evidently an enclosed piece of ground, a plantation rather than a garden in our sense of the word. It lay east of the Kidron and on the lower slope of the mount of Olives, at the foot of which is the traditional site dating from the 4th century and now possessed by the Franciscans. The Grotto of the Agony, a few hundred yards farther north, is an ancient cave-cistern, now a Latin sanctuary. (See further JERUSALEM.)