. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. nient port, protected by piers built out into the sea; but which now, from the neglectof ages, has become shallow and unsafe. The great goddess of the island was Venus,hence called Cypria; and of all the luxurious bowers devoted to her worship, Paphoswas the chief. Here stood the most famous of her temples, and the priesthoodattached to it was one of the richest appointments at the disposal of the Eoman * Geographical Society, vol. viii. p. 230; and ^^ Pococke, vol. ii. p. 214. see Chesneys Expedition to the Euphrates, and 2- See Evirip. Bacch. 400 :Allens
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. nient port, protected by piers built out into the sea; but which now, from the neglectof ages, has become shallow and unsafe. The great goddess of the island was Venus,hence called Cypria; and of all the luxurious bowers devoted to her worship, Paphoswas the chief. Here stood the most famous of her temples, and the priesthoodattached to it was one of the richest appointments at the disposal of the Eoman * Geographical Society, vol. viii. p. 230; and ^^ Pococke, vol. ii. p. 214. see Chesneys Expedition to the Euphrates, and 2- See Evirip. Bacch. 400 :Allens Bead Sea. iai tiotI Kun-poi, * For the aueicnt estimates, see Plin. N. H. ri? a<J)po6.: I EpwTfs. OtTTOjLLOl ■ Philo, Leg. ad Caium, p. 36. ni. Jos. Ant. XVi. 4, 5. ^apPipov iroTojioO poai * Mela. icapiriVoDcrii ii-op^pov. Uppicia in ea, XV. Plin. N. H. v. 35. ^ dUxei 8e Iff) crraBiovs i^ijKovTa TTjs naXama- -o (x^! Xi/ifVos a-Tfvui Tov (KwKovv. Diod. 001;. Strabo, xiv. 6 (p. 244, Tauchnitz).Sic. XX. 50. ^.Js 5. Rrixs OF SAL AMI S.
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