Salmacis
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Salmacis was a naiad of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.
Water Nymph Salmacis, engraving by Philip Galle (1587)
La nymphe Salmacis by François-Joseph Bosio, 1826 (Louvre)
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus by François-Joseph Navez (1829)
Pygmalion
Idleness
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Idleness is a lack of motion or energy. In describing a person, idle suggests having no labor: "idly passing the day".
Salmacis
…Salmacis (Ancient Greek: Σαλμακίς) was a naiad of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness. Salmacis' attempted rape of Hermaphroditus is narrated in the fourth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (see also Dercetis…
Idle Woman, painting by Daniel Hernández Morillo
People idling in Kannur, India