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Baucis

Baucis · f

The wife of Philemon

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Baucis — Lewis & Short

Baucis, ĭdis, f., = *bau=kis.

I The wife of Philemon, in Phrygia. She, with her husband, entertained, in a very hospitable manner, Jupiter and Mercury, who came to them in the form of men; in return for which they were changed to two sacred trees before their hut, which became a temple, Ov. M. 8, 631 sq.
II Meton., an old woman, Pers. 4, 21.

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