Ganna, the Celtic prophetess, who succeeded Velle´da. She went to Rome, and was received by Domitian with great honor.—Tacitus, Annals, 55.
Ganor, Gano´ra, Geneura, Ginevra, Genievre, Guinevere, Guenever, are different ways of spelling the name of Arthur’s wife; called by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Guanhuma´ra or Guan´humar; but Tennyson has made Guenevere the popular English form.
Gants Jaunes (Des), dandies, men of fashion.
Gan´ymede (3 syl.), a beautiful Phrygian boy, who was carried up to Olympos on the back of an eagle, to become cup-bearer to the gods instead of Hebê. At the time of his capture he was playing a flute while tending his father’s sheep.
There fell a flute when Ganymede went up—
The flute that he was wont to play upon.
Jean Ingelow, Honours, ii.
(Jupiter compensated the boy’s father for the loss of his son, by a pair of horses.)
Tennyson, speaking of a great reverse of fortune from the highest glory to the lowest shame, says:
They mounted Ganymedes,