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Hermaphroditus

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Hermaphroditus (hərmăfrədī`təs), in Greek mythology, beautiful son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He scorned the nymph Salmacis, who prayed that they might never be separated. When Hermaphroditus swam in her stream, she combined with him, uniting male and female characteristics in one body—hence the origin of the word hermaphrodite.
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Hermaphroditus was a boy melded with a nymph so that they could not be parted.
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In his Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the story of Hermaphroditus watched by the nymph Salmacis as he slips into the water for a solitary swim: ille cavis velox adplauso corpore palmis desilit in latices alternaque bracchia ducens in liquidis translucet aquis .
Swimming with translators by Kates, J. / Harvard Review
Given the attention that a work like Panormita's Hermaphroditus (the main target of Rho's Philippic) claimed on the minds of humanists and their patrons, it is surprising that a recent study of highly-charged language in the period (Martines's Strong Words [2001]) should be nearly silent on the subject of humanistic discussions of obscenity, or the legal status of libel and slander in the period.
Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of Antonio da Rho by Blanchard, W. Scott / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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