"Hic est ille, suis nimium qui credidit undis Narcissus vero dignus amore puer. cernis ab irriguo repetentem gramine ripas ut per quas periit crescere possit aquas."
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Narcissus (Tr. J. W. Duff). The word crescere would imply his perennial growth as a flower after metamorphosis.
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Pentadius (poet)
Pentadius (fl. c. 3rd or 4th century AD) was a Latin poet of . He was of North African origin, and seemingly a Christian. Two elegies and four epigrams are ascribed to him in the Anthologia Salmasiana.
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