Salmacis, A fountaine in Caria, where a nymph finding Hermaphroditus, the sonne of Mercurie and Venus naked, she embracing him, desiced of the Gods, that of thÊ two mighte be made one body, and so it bappened. Also the People of Caria, be sometime called Salmatij. Salmantica.A tomne of Portugall.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
salmăcĭdus, a, um, adj. [contr. from salgama, salma, and acidus], of water, having a salt and sour taste, salso-acid: salmacidum a(lmuro/n, salmacidus a(lmuro/s, a(lw/dhs, Gloss. Philox. (post-Aug.): aquae (with nitrosae), Plin. 31, 3, 22, 36: aqua (opp. dulcis), Plin. Val. 5, 41 fin.: fluvii, Flor. 4, 10, 8.
Salmăcis, ĭdis, f.I.A very cleatfountain 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.).