Gălēsus

, now Galeso , a river of Calabria, flowing into the bay of Tarentum. The poets have celebrated it for the shady groves in its neighbourhood, and the fine sheep which feed on its fertile banks, and whose fleeces were said to be rendered soft when they bathed in the stream. Martial , bk. 2 , ltr. 43 ; bk. 4 , ltr. 28 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 4 , li. 126 .— Horace , bk. 2 , ode 6, li. 10 .――A rich person of Latium, killed as he attempted to make a reconciliation between the Trojans and Rutulians, when As can i us had killed the favourite stag of Tyrrheus; which was the prelude to all the enmities between the hostile nations. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 335 .