⁂ 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). =Garcilas´o=, surnamed “the Inca,” descended on the mother’s side from the royal family of Peru (1530-1568). He was the son of Sebastian Garcilaso, a lieutenant of Alvarado and Pizarro. Author of _Commentaries on the Origin of the Incas, their Laws and Government_. _Garcilaso_ [DE LA VEGA], called “The Petrarch of Spain”, born at Toledo (1503-1536). His poems are eclogues, odes, and elegies of great _naïveté_, grace, and harmony. Sometimes he turned to gaze upon his book, Boscan or Garcilasso [_sic_]. Byron, _Don Juan_ i. 95 (1819). =Garda= (_Thorne_). Beautiful, untaught and utterly unreasonable girl, whom everybody pets and who always gets her own way. She fascinates men and outwits women, defies all authority, and never loses her temper. In a lazy way she falls in love with one man after another, and is most constant to the least worthy. The best and kindest woman among her friends suffers in reputation from her escapades, and Garda accepts the sacrifice as a matter of course. The incarnation of sensuous selfishness.—Constance Fennimore Woolson, _East Angels_ (1886). =Gardening= (_Father of Landscape_), Lenotre (1613-1700). =Gar´diner= (_Richard_), porter to Miss Seraphine Arthuret and her sister Angelica.—Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.). _Gardiner (Colonel)_, colonel of Waverley’s Regiment.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).