. Aphrodite of Cnidus(Munich). Aphrodite(Venus de Medici: Florence.) patroness of the lawfully married, the latter ofcourtesans (see Plat. Symp. 180,181; Paus. , 2, ix. 16, 2; Theocr. Epig. 13). In art thenude statues are the later development, theweaker types of ordinary feminine beauty beinglater than the stronger; the more archaicstatues were fully clothed, the earliest of all APHRODITOPOLIS APIS 87 probably ending in a quadiangular base, suelias that at Delos, which Pausanias (ix. 40) callsthe work of Daedalus. Of the numero

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. Aphrodite of Cnidus(Munich). Aphrodite(Venus de Medici: Florence.) patroness of the lawfully married, the latter ofcourtesans (see Plat. Symp. 180,181; Paus. , 2, ix. 16, 2; Theocr. Epig. 13). In art thenude statues are the later development, theweaker types of ordinary feminine beauty beinglater than the stronger; the more archaicstatues were fully clothed, the earliest of all APHRODITOPOLIS APIS 87 probably ending in a quadiangular base, suelias that at Delos, which Pausanias (ix. 40) callsthe work of Daedalus. Of the numerous nudestatues of Aphrodite, three of the most famousiire here given. The first is an original statuefound at Melos (Milo), and now in the Louvreat Paris, called the Venus of Milo. The secondis a copy of the Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxi-teles, now at Munich. The third (Venus deMedici) is evidently an imitation of the CnidianAphrodite : it was ascribed to Cleomenes untilMichaelis showed that the inscription with thatname is a very late addition. For the Eoman

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