Salmacis

Role: Naiad · First appears: Fable 42

Life events

Salmacis proposes marriage, but Hermaphroditus rejects her advances.(Fable42)
- With: Hermaphroditus
- “if thou hast none, let me be {thy wife}, and let us unite in one tie.” After these things {said}, the Naiad is silent; a blush tinges the face of the youth: he knows not what love is”
Salmacis seizes resisting Hermaphroditus and entwines herself around him in the water.(Fable42)
- With: Hermaphroditus
- “she plunges in the midst of the waters, and seizes him resisting her, and snatches reluctant kisses”

admired: Hermaphroditus “The Naiad Salmacis falls in love with the youth Hermaphroditus, who rejects her advances.”
courtship with Hermaphroditus “But far, far more fortunate than all these {is she}; if thou hast any wife, if thou shouldst vouchsafe any one {the honor of} marriage. And if any one is thy {wife, then} let my pleasure be stolen; but, if thou hast none, let me be {thy wife}, and let us unite in one tie.”
with Hermaphroditus (Their bodies are magically merged into one.) “Her prayers find propitious Deities, for the mingled bodies of the two are united,[52] and one human shape is put upon them; just as if any one should see branches beneath a common bark join in growing, and spring up together.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.