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GOLIAS. Goliath, the Philistine giant of Gath, challenged Israel to send out a champion to fight him. David volunteered and, armed only with a sling, defeated and killed Goliath (I Kings 17).

The Man of Law, in an apostrophe, calls Golias "unmesurable of length" and asks how David could make him so dead, except by God's grace, MLT 934-938. [David]

Golias, with initial stress, is the ME variant of Goliath; it appears in medial position, MLT 934.

From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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