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The Birds of Ganymede, eagles. Ganymede is represented as sitting on an eagle, or attended by that bird.

To see upon her shores her fowl and conies feed,
And wantonly to hatch the birds of Ganymede.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, iv. (1612).

Ganymede is the constellation Aquarius.

Garagantua, a giant, who swallowed five pilgrims with their staves in a salad.—The History of Garagantua (1594). (See Gargantua.)

You must borrow me Garagantua’s mouth before I can utter so long a word.—Shakespeare: As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2 (1600).