Brewer's: Ganymede

(3 syl.; g hard). Jove's cup-bearer; the most beautiful boy ever born. He succeeded Hebe in office.

When Ganymede above His service ministers to mighty Jove.

Hoole's Ariosto.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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