. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 62.—r.,in „f Sulamis. J^-om the llritish Head of Ptolemy V.—i?<!i-. nroAef^oiou Ba<riAtais (of King Ptolemy). [ 45] ST. PA Urs FIBST CIRCUIT. [Chap. YIII. Emjjerors.^^ The country around teemed with abundant vegetation, and the air itselfwas soft and balmy; and the goddess, perhaps, owed her birth, not, according to the. Fig. 63.—Coaii between Paphos (jioui Baffa) and Old Iaplios (Paluw Paptui) Fran i Imiraltj tl ut. fable, to the cool waters of the sea, but rather to the warmth of the climate thatglowed upon land. What poet has
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 62.—r.,in „f Sulamis. J^-om the llritish Head of Ptolemy V.—i?<!i-. nroAef^oiou Ba<riAtais (of King Ptolemy). [ 45] ST. PA Urs FIBST CIRCUIT. [Chap. YIII. Emjjerors.^^ The country around teemed with abundant vegetation, and the air itselfwas soft and balmy; and the goddess, perhaps, owed her birth, not, according to the. Fig. 63.—Coaii between Paphos (jioui Baffa) and Old Iaplios (Paluw Paptui) Fran i Imiraltj tl ut. fable, to the cool waters of the sea, but rather to the warmth of the climate thatglowed upon land. What poet has not sung of the Paphian Venus ?— tj 0 upa KvTTpov iKave (f>i\ofifieiSrjs A0poSiT7;cV Ua(poi>, (vdiiSe oi repevos fiafius re ^u>,eis. Odyss. ff. 362. Ipsa Paplium sublimis abit, sedesque revisitLffita suas, ubi temphim illi, centiunque SabseoTm-e calent axis, sertisque recentibus halant. ^neid, i. 419. The goddess spake, and vanisbed to the skies,Well pleased again to seek her Paphian bowers ; Where temples and a bimdi-ed altars rise,Teeming with incense, crowned with fairest flowers. The reader must not picture to himself an exquisitely-finished statue of thegoddess, like the Venus de Medici, commanding the admiration of all that gaze uponits transcendent beauty. Not so. The worship of the Paphian Venus was derivedby the Cypriots from the Phoenicians, and by them
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