The corpus record — Latin

Salmacis

Salmacis · f

A very cleat

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

Salmăcis — Lewis & Short

Salmăcis, ĭdis, f.

I A very cleat fountain in Caria, much used, and fabled to render soft and effeminate all who drank of it, Ov. M. 4, 286; Vitr. 2, 8; Stat. S. 1, 5, 21.—Personified, the nymph of this fountain, Ov. M. 4, 337; 4, 347; voc. Salmaci, id. ib. 4, 306; cf. Fest. p. 329 Müll.—

II Transf., a weak, effeminate person, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61 (Trag. v. 36 Vahl.; cf. Trag. Rel. p. 53 Rib.).

In the wild

Salmacis Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.347
Salmacis Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.337
Salmacidis Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.8.11
Salmacis Martial, Epigrammata 10.30.10
Salmacis Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 76.11
Salmacis Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.286

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.