a poetical composition upon the subject of husbandry, containing rules clothed in a pleasing dress, and embellished with all the beauties and elegancies of poetry. The word is formed from the Latin georgicus, which is merely the Greek γεωργικός, from γῆ, terra, earth, and ἐργάζομαι, opero, I work or labour, from ἐργα, opus, work.

GEPIDÆ, Gepides, or Gepidi, in Ancient Geography, according to Procopius, were a Gothic people, or a branch of that race, 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 signifies lazy or slothful; whilst others established themselves in Dacia, and called their settlement there Gepidia.