a poetical composition upon the subject of husbandry, containing rules therein, put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry. The word is borrowed from the Latin georgicus, and that of the Greek γεωγνος, of γη, terra, "earth," and γραπται, oporo, "I work, or labour," of τερπον, opor, "work." Hesiod and Virgil are the two greatest masters in this kind of poetry.—The moderns have produced nothing in this kind, except Rapin's book of Gardening; and the celebrated poem entitled Cyder, by Mr Phillips, who, if he had enjoyed the advantage of Virgil's language, would have been second to Virgil in a much nearer degree.

GEORGIUM Sidus. See Astronomy Index.

GEPIDÆ, GEPIDES, or GEPIDI, in Ancient Geography, according to Procopius, were a Gothic people, or a canton or branch of them; some of whom, in the migration of the Goths, settled in an island at the mouth of the Vistula, which they called Gepidus after their own name, which denotes lazy or slothful; others in Dacia, calling their settlement there Gepidia.