Găny̆mēdes, a beautiful youth of Phrygia, son of Tros, and brother to Ilus and Assaracus. According to Lucan, he was son of Dardanus. He was taken up to heaven by Jupiter as he was hunting, or rather tending his father’s flocks on mount Ida, and he became the cup-bearer of the gods in the place of Hebe. Some say that he was carried away by an eagle, to satisfy the shameful and unnatural desires of Jupiter. He is generally represented sitting on the back of a flying eagle in the air. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 24.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 28, li. 231.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 252.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 10, li. 155.—Horace, bk. 4, ode 4.
Garætĭcum, a town of Africa.
Gărămantes (singular, Garamas), a people in the interior parts of Africa, now called the deserts of Zara. They lived in common, and acknowledged as their own only such children as resembled them, and scarce clothed themselves, on account of the warmth of their climate. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 198; bk. 6, li. 795.—Lucan, bk. 4, li. 334.—Strabo, bk. 2.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 8.—Silius Italicus, bk. 1, li. 142; bk. 11, li. 181.
Gărămantis, a nymph who became mother of Iarbas, Phileus, and Pilumnus by Jupiter. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 198.
Gărămas, a king of Libya, whose daughter was mother of Ammon by Jupiter.
Gărătas, a river of Arcadia, near Tegea, on the banks of which Pan had a temple. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 44.
Gareătæ, a people of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 45.
Gareathyra, a town of Cappadocia. Strabo, bk. 12.
Gargānus, now St. Angelo, a lofty mountain of Apulia, which advances in the form of a promontory into the Adriatic sea. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 11, li. 257.—Lucan, bk. 5, li. 880.
Gargăphia, a valley near Platæa, with a fountain of the same name, where Actæon was torn to pieces by his dogs. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 156.