Găbii

, a city of the Volsci, built by the kings of Alba, but now no longer in existence. It was taken by the artifice of Sextus the son of Tarquin, who gained the confidence of the inhabitants by deserting to them, and pretending that his father had ill-treated him. Romulus and Remus were educated there, as it was the custom at that time to send there the young nobility, and Juno was the chief deity of the place. The inhabitants had a peculiar mode of tucking up their dre , whence Gabinus cinct us . Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 773 ; bk. 7 , lis. 612 & 682.— Livy , bk. 5 , ch. 46 ; bk. 6 , ch. 29 ; bk. 8 , ch. 9 ; bk. 10 , ch. 7 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 2 , li. 709 .— Plutarch , Romulus .