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A river of Pug’lia, not far from Tarentum. The sheep that fed on the meadows of Gale’sus were noted for their fine wool. (Horace: 2 Carminum Liber, vi. 10.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.