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Salmacis
A fountain of Caria, which rendered effeminate all those who
bathed therein. It was in this fountain that Hermaphroditus changed his
sex. (Ovid: Metamorphoses, iv. 285, and xvi. 319.)
“Thy moist limbs melted into Salmacis.”
Swinburne: Hermaphroditus.
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