Septimius, a son of the emperor Severus, brother to Caracalla. In the eighth year of his age, he was moved with compassion at the fate of some of the partizans of Niger and Albinus who were to be executed, and his father struck with his humanity retracted the sentence. After Severus's death he rejoined at Rome conjointly with his brother; but Caracalla, who envied his virtues and was jealous of his popularity, ordered him to be poisoned; and when this could not be effected, he murdered him in the arms of his mother Julia, who in the attempt of defending the fatal blows from his body received a wound in her arm, from the hand of her son, A.D. 212. Geta had not yet reached the 23rd year of his age, and the Romans had reason to lament the death of so virtuous a prince, while they groaned under the cruelties and oppression of Caracalla.

GETHIN, Lady Grace, an English lady of uncommon parts, was the daughter of Sir George Norton of Abbots-Leigh in Somersetshire, and born in the year 1676. She had all the advantages of a liberal education; and became the wife of Sir Richard Gethin, of Gethin Grott in Ireland. She was mistress of great accomplishments, natural and acquired, but did not live long enough to display them to the world; for she died in the 21st year of her age. She was buried in Westminster abbey, where a beautiful monument with an inscription is erected over her; and, for perpetuating her memory, provision was made for a sermon to be preached in Westminster abbey yearly, on Ath Wednesday for ever. She wrote, and left behind her, in loose papers, a work which, soon after her death, was methodized, and published under the title of "Reliquiae Gethinianae;" or, Some remains of the most ingenious and excellent lady, Grace, lady Gethin, lately deceased. Being a collection of choice discourses, pleasant apophthegms, and witty sentences. Written by her, for the most part, by way of essay, and at spare hours." Lond. 1700, 4to; with her picture before it.