The most faithless spy since the days of Ganelon.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_, xxiv. (1820). =Ganem=, “The Slave of Love.” The hero and title of one of the _Arabian Nights_ tales. Ganem was the son of a rich merchant of Damascus, named Abou Aibou. On the death of his father he went to Bagdad, to dispose of the merchandise left, and accidentally saw three slaves secretly burying a chest in the earth. Curiosity induced him to disinter the chest, when lo! it contained a beautiful woman, sleeping from the effects of a narcotic drug. He took her to the lodgings, and discovered that the victim was Fetnab, the caliph’s favorite, who had been buried alive by order of the sultana, out of jealousy. When the caliph heard thereof, he was extremely jealous of the young merchant, and ordered him to be put to death, but he made good his escape in the guise of a waiter, and lay concealed till the angry fit of the caliph had subsided. When Haroun-al-Raschid (the caliph) came to himself, and heard the unvarnished facts of the case, he pardoned Ganem, gave to him Fetnab for a wife, and appointed him to a lucrative post about the court. =Gan´esa=, goddess of wisdom, in Hindû mythology. Then Camdeo _[Love]_ bright and Ganesa sublime Shall bless with joy their own propitious clime. Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1799). =Ganlesse= (_Richard_), _alias_ SIMON CANTER, _alias_ EDWARD CHRISTIAN, one of the conspirators.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =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_, 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).