There are not a few for whom the mystery is repellent, who shrink from it as from Hermaphroditus.
There was a famous statue of Hermaphroditus by Polycles of Athens, probably the younger of the two statuaries of that name.
Hermaphroditus, like Joseph, was the pattern and mirror of continence, and would not be seduced.
The 'Hermaphroditus,' therefore, deserves a prominent place in the history of Renaissance manners.
The Panormita; author, by the way, of the shameless 'Hermaphroditus.'
