Galla
- a female Gaul; v. 1. Galli, I.
- a priest of Cybele; v. 3. Gallus, II. A.
- see Gallus.
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…int alas. cum igitur hoc animal tam sit canorum sua sponte, quid in mentem venit Callistheni dicere deos gallis signum dedisse cantandi, cum id vel natura vel casus efficere potuisset Sanguinem pluisse senatui nuntiatum est, Atratum etiam…
M. Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione
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…suavem, candidam. ipsum friabilem feminei sexus putant, marem autem, qui in arabia nascatur, durum, gallae similem aut subrutilum, in alvo habentem durum lapidem. tertius in cypro invenitur colore illis in africa nascentibus similis…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…cedite frigoribus. LVIII In tenebris luges amissum, Galla, maritum. Iam plorare pudet te, puto, Galla, virum. LIX Flentibus Heliadum ramis dum vipera repit, Fluxit in obstantem sucina gutta feram Quae dum miratur…
Martial, Epigrammata
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…Et plus quam futui, si totidem addideris Aureolos a te cur accipit, Aeschyle, denos Non fellat tanti Galla. Quid ergo Tacet. V Tibi, summe Rheni domitor et parens orbis, Pudice princeps, gratias agunt…
Martial, Epigrammata
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…tum aqua gargarizandum, in qua simul rubus et lenticula decocta sit. Inlinenda autem ipsa uua uel omphacio uel galla uel alumine scissili, sic ut cuilibet eorum mel adiciatur ; chelidoniae quoque suco per coclear inlita uua maximeque prodest…
Celsus, De Medicina
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…adulteratum, deprehenditur suco punici mali ; sincerum enim mixtura alterum genus est pallidi et scabri et quod inficiatur et galla, ideoque hoc vocant paraphoron. liquidi aluminis vis adstringere, indurare, rodere. melle admixto sanat oris ulcera…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…sunt refrigerandi sed calfaciendi causa reperta. Est tamen, quod refrigerare possit, ad calidas podagras aptum. Habet gallae et immaturae et alterius, coriandri seminis, cicutae, lacrimae aridae, cummis, singulorum plenum acetabulum ; cerati…
Celsus, De Medicina
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…carnem fieri aesculo, robore, subere. quae glandem ferunt, omnes et gallam alternisque annis glandem, sed gallam hemeris optimam et coriis perficiendis aptissimam, similem huic latifolia, sed leviorem multoque minus probatam. fert et nigram…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…, myrto, resina, pice. sincera axungia medetur ambustis vel nive, pernionibus autem cum hordei cinere et galla pari modo. prodest et confricatis membris, itinerumque lassitudines et fatigationes levat. ad tussim veterem recens decoquitur quadrantis…
Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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…pares portiones ; uel aluminis scissilis P. ; turis, sandaracae, nitri, singulorum P. I ; gallae P. VIII ; aristolochiae P. X ; mellis quantum satis sit. Est etiam H e rae compositio…
Celsus, De Medicina
(1) The wife of Constantius, son of Constantius Chlorus. She was the mother of Caesar.
(2) The second wife of Theodosius the Great.
(3) Placidia, daughter of the preceding by Theodosius. When Alaric took Rome in A.D. 410, she fell into his hands, and four years later was married by Ataulphus, king of the Goths. Upon his death she was returned to her country, and in 417 married Constantius III., by whom she had the emperor Valentinian III. During the minority of her son she was regent of the Western Empire, dying about the year 450. See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chapters xxxi., xxxiii., xxxv.