narcissus
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1. narcissus - Noun
2. Narcissus - Proper noun
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A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.
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A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).
Deranged by lust, Dané searches for Narcissus, naked but for a cloak, and finds him at the point of death.
He had prayed to the gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked.
Hermann Hesse 's character "Narcissus" in " Narcissus and Goldmund " shares several of mythical Narcissus' traits, although his narcissism is based on his intellect rather than his physical beauty.
In it, a young man named Aminias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors.
In the four manuscripts that remain, an unknown author borrows from the Echo and Narcissus of Ovid to create a story better suited to the needs of his time.