Note 323 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)
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Ausonius, Epigr. C.,
De Hermaphrodito Mercurio genitore satus, genetrice Cythere, Nominis ut mixti, sic corporis Hermaphroditus, Concretus sexu, sed non perfectus, utroque: Ambiguae Veneris, neutro potiundus amori.
(Of Hermaphroditus.—Born of Mercury as sire, of Cythera as mother, Hermaphroditus, at once of compound name and compound body, combined of either sex, but complete in neither; a being of ambiguous love, that can enjoy the joys of neither passion.)