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Hermaphroditus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body.





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... his importance in Renaissance culture; but Ovid is much more important. The motto on the title-page of Venus and Adonis is from the Amores, and the matter of the poem is from Metamorphoses, X. 519 ff., with features from the stories of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis (Meta. IV. 285 ff.), and the hunting in Calydon (Meta. VIII. 270 ff.). Ovid is quoted in Latin in three early plays; and even where a translation was available, the phrasing of Shakespeare's allusions ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson


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