To tumble Vulcans on the second morn.
The Princess, iii.
The Birds of Ganymede, eagles. Ganymede is represented as sitting on an eagle, or attended by that bird.
To see upon her shores her foul and conies feed,
And wantonly to hatch the birds of Ganymede.
Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. (1612).
⁂ Ganymede is the constellation Aquarius.
Garagan´tua, a giant, who swallowed five pilgrims with their staves in a salad.—Rabelais, The History of Garagantua (1533).
“You must borrow me Garagantua’s mouth first: ’tis a word too great for any mouth of this age’s size.”—Shakespeare, As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2.
Gar´cias. The soul of Peter Garcias, money. Two scholars, journeying to Salamanca, came to a fountain, which bore this inscription; “Here is buried the soul of the licentiate Peter Garcias.” One scholar went away laughing at the notion of a buried soul, but the other, cutting with his knife, loosened a stone, and found a purse containing 100 ducats.—Lesage, Gil Blas (to the reader, 1715).