Gela

How to use Gela in a sentence

• There is a curious story related as to his death, which took place at Gela in 456 B.C.

  Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes | Aeschylus

• The Gela is at times a very violent stream, as the following description of Ovid bears witness.

  The River-Names of Europe | Robert Ferguson

• At Gela, in Sicily, there are 233 'potted' burials in an excavated graveyard, out of a total of 570.

  Outspoken Essays | William Ralph Inge

• Small contingents also arrived, in answer to the call of Gylippus, from Gela and Selinus.

  Stories from Thucydides | H. L. Havell

• He is to be distinguished from an older Apollodorus of Gela (342-290), also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 | Various