Gabae
(
Γάβαι).
1.
A city of Persia, in the province of Persis, placed by Ptolemy southeast of Pasargada, on
the confines of Carmania.
2.
A city of Sogdiana, southwest of Cyreschata. Gabae was one of the first places to which the
exploits of Alexander gave celebrity in that country. It is the same with the Gabaza of
Curtius (Quint. Curt. viii. 4, 1).