(anc. geog.), a town of Latium, midway almost between Rome and Praeneste to the east, often mentioned in the history of Tarquin the Proud. Cincius Galinius devised a particular way of tucking the gown, by drawing it forwards on the breast, and tying it into a knot; as the people of Gabii did at a solemn sacrifice, on the sudden attack of an enemy, in order to be fitter for action. In this manner the consul used to declare war, to sacrifice, and burn the spoils of the enemy; and then he was said to be praecinctus. The place now extinct.

GABINIAN laws, in Roman antiquities; laws instituted upon several occasions by persons of the name of Gabinius. The first was the Gabinia lex de Comitiis, by A. Gabinius the tribune, in the year of Rome 614. It required that in the public assemblies for electing magistrates, the votes should be given by tablets, and not nisi voces.—Another de Comitiis, which made it a capital punishment to convene any clandestine assembly, agreeable to the old law of the 12 tables.—Another de Militia, by A. Gabinius the tribune, year of Rome 685. It granted Pompey the power of carrying on the war against the pirates during three years, and of obliging all kings, governors, and states, to supply him with all the necessaries he wanted, over all the Mediterranean sea, and in the maritime provinces as far as 400 miles from the sea.—Another de Ufurd by Aul. Gabinius the tribune, year of Rome 685. It ordained that no action should be granted for the recovery of any money borrowed upon small interest to be lent upon larger. This was an usual practice at Rome, which obtained the name of verfuram facere.—Another against fornication.