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Gallus may refer to:
People- several ancient Romans; see Gallus (cognomen)
- Gaius Cornelius Gallus (c. 70 BC–26 BC), Roman poet, orator and politician (in later life, Prefect of Egypt)
- Aelius Gallus, successor of Cornelius Gallus as prefect of Egypt (26–24 BC) and commander of disastrous Roman expedition in Arabia
- Trebonianus Gallus (206–253), Roman emperor (251–253)
- Constantius Gallus (c. 325/326 – 354), member of the Constantinian dynasty and Caesar of the Roman Empire (351–354)
- Saint Gall (Saint Gallus), 7th century
- Gallus Anonymus, a chronicler working in 11th and 12th century Poland
- Thomas Gallus, c. 1200-1246
- Nicolaus Gallus (1516–1570), a Lutheran Reformer
- Jacobus Gallus (1550–1591), late-Renaissance composer
- Gallus Mag, real name unknown, an early 19th Century female bouncer at a New York bar
- Sandor (Alexander) Gallus, Australian archaeologist
- Gallus, the Latin word for an inhabitant of Gaul
- Gallus, the singular form of Galli, the eunuch priests of Cybele
- Gallus, the Latin word for rooster or cockerel
- Gallus (genus), a bird genus in the pheasant family
- Gallus (constellation), The Cockerel, an obsolete constellation
- Gallus (Frankfurt am Main), former Gallusviertel, a district of Frankfurt, Germany
- Gallus, the Lowland Scottish word for 1. self-confident, daring, cheeky or 2. stylish, impressive
- Gallus (album), by Scottish rock band Gun
The Gallus (known as the Gallusviertel until 2007) is a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I.
The name Gallus originates from the German word "Galgen" .
Gallus extends in the west to Griesheim, while it is bordered in the north by the exhibition center and the Rebstockpark and in the south by the railway tracks. An important transport and business axis, Mainzer Landstraße, which is bordered by car dealers, gas stations and office buildings, cuts directly across the entire city section. On the grounds of the former freight depot and marshaling yard all around Den Haager Straße, a completely new residential and retail district is currently being developed-the Europaviertel. During World War II, the Alderwerke factory was a concentration camp, using slave labour from the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, and after the War the area was also host to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials during 1963-65. By 2019, offices, stores and apartments are to be built on the 90 hectare large grounds. The Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt City has been there since 2006.
Category:Districts of Frankfurt
Gallus (the cockerel) was a constellation introduced in 1612 (or 1613) by Petrus Plancius.
It was in the northern part of what is now Puppis. It was not adopted in the atlases of Johannes Hevelius, John Flamsteed and Johann Bode and fell into disuse.
Gallus is the second album from Scottish rock band Gun. The cover shows Benny Lynch, a renowned Scottish boxer from Glasgow. The album peaked at #14 on the UK Albums Chart.
Gallus was an ancient Roman cognomen.
Usage examples of "gallus".
Cum suos pugna superiores esse Galli confiderent et nostros multitudine premi viderent, ex omnibus partibus et ei qui munitionibus continebantur et hi qui ad auxilium convenerant clamore et ululatu suorum animos confirmabant.
Quidam ante portam oppidi Gallus per manus sebi ac picis traditas glebas in ignem e regione turris proiciebat: scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit.
Agrippa, Statilius Taurus, Maecenas, Salvidienus, Lucius Cornificius, Titius, Cornelius Gallus, the Coccei, Sosius .
Dum haec apud Alesiam geruntur, Galli concilio principum indicto non omnes eos qui arma ferre possent, ut censuit Vercingetorix, convocandos statuunt, sed certum numerum cuique ex civitate imperandum, ne tanta multitudine confusa nec moderari nec discernere suos nec frumentandi rationem habere possent.
One of these, 6 1/2 feet long, and of 2 1/2 inches bore, manufactured in 1543, bears the cast inscription of Petrus Baude Gallus operis artifex.
THE THREAT Sir Lulworth Quayne sat in the lounge of his favourite restaurant, the Gallus Bankiva, discussing the weaknesses of the world with his nephew, who had lately returned from a much-enlivened exile in the wilds of Mexico.
Stibourne I was as is a leonesse, And of my tonge a verray jangleresse, And walke I wolde, as I had doon biforn, From hous to hous, although he had it sworn, For which he often-tymes wolde preche, And me of olde Romayn geestes teche, How he Symplicius Gallus lefte his wyf, And hir forsook for terme of al his lyf, Noght but for open-heveded he hir say, Lookynge out at his dore, upon a day.
It was bootiful to me, who love my wife, and believe in her, and would put on my meetin clothes and go to the gallus for her cheerfully, ruther than believe she was capable of taking anybody's money but mine.
There are sacred rites of the mother of the gods, in which the beautiful youth Atys, loved by her, and castrated by her through a woman’s jealousy, is deplored by men who have suffered the like calamity, whom they call Galli.
In the height of his prosperity, the victorious monarch, who had chastised the rashness of Gallus, and suppressed the revolt of Sylvanus, who had taken the diadem from the head of Vetranio, and vanquished in the field the legions of Magnentius, received from an invisible hand a wound, which he could neither heal nor revenge.
When the armies came in right of each other, the soldiers of Gallus compared the ignominious conduct of their sovereign with the glory of his rival.
The Gothic writer at least observed the peace which his victorious countrymen had sworn to Gallus.
When Flattery's people blew up a rogue kelp bed five years back, Crista Galli surfaced with the debris.
His good eye was not focusing and a new darkness was upon him, but he was sure that the form he'd seen had been the pale Crista Galli.
His latest project featured Crista Galli and her life since her rescue in the kelp.