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n. - (Greek mythology) Son of the messenger god and the goddess of love and beauty who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body.

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  • I've already incorporated a great deal of Ovid's Metamorphoses — — the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from the fourth book.
  • The proper name "Hermaphroditus" refers us back to another tale from The Metamorphoses in which latency proves to be destiny.
  • "Hermaphroditus" (the only time it is named) it spreads its wings and flies her upstream, where she and the poem abandon it (xliii).
  • He searches into the history of Priapus and Hermaphroditus.
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