Gaius

a Roman jurist, who flourished between 130 and 180 a. p. Before the revision of the Roman laws, and the reform of legal studies by Just in i an, the “‘ Institutes” of Gaius, as well as four other of his treatises, were the received text-books of the schools of law. His “ Institutes,” moreover, formed the groundwork of the “Institutes” of Just in i an. The “Institutes” was almost completely lost, till in 1816 Niebuhr discovered it at Verona, under a palimpsest of the “Epistles” of Jerome. This discove ery threw a flood of light on the history of the early development of Roman law, especially on the forms of procedure in civil actions. — Gaius, in Scripture, (1) a Maced on i an who accompanied Paul in his travels, and. whose life was in danger at Ephesus (Acts xix: 29). (2) A Corinthian convert of Paul, who hospally entertained the apostle while a boring at Corinth (Rom. xvi: 28; I Cor. i: 14). (8) Of Derbe; an attendant of Paul from Corinth, in his last journey to Jerusalem (Acts xx: 4). The third epistle of John is addre ed “to the well-beloved -Gaius,” whose character for hospitality comports well with that of (2) above. The name was a common one wherever the homans lived. Galapagos (Spanish, “‘tortoises’’), a group of 18 islands of volcanic origin in the North Pacific Ocean, about 600 miles W. of the coast of Ecuador, | to which they belong; area, 2,950 square miles. The most important is Albemarle, 60 miles long by 15 broad, and rising 4,700 feet above the sea.