The Nymph Salmacis
By Francois-Joseph Bosio, 1826.
"There dwelt a Nymph, not up for hunting or archery: unfit for footraces. She the only Naiad not in Diana’s band.
Often her sisters would say: "Pick up a javelin, or bristling quiver, and interrupt your leisure for the chase!"
But she would not pick up a javelin or arrows, nor trade leisure for the chase.
Instead she would bathe her beautiful limbs and tend to her hair, with her waters as a mirror."
- Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book IV











