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Narcissus.

A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

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name/nɑː(r)ˈsɪsəs/
  1. A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

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From Latin Narcissus, from Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος (Nárkissos, “Narcissus”).

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