134 Plutarch, _De Alexandri Magni fortuna aut virtute_, ii. 8. The name of the gardener-king was Alynomus. That the Cinyrads existed as a family down to Macedonian times is further proved by a Greek inscription found at Old Paphos, which records that a certain Democrates, son of Ptolemy, head of the Cinyrads, and his wife Eunice, dedicated a statue of their daughter to the Paphian Aphrodite. See L. Ross, “Inschriften von Cypern,” _Rheinisches Museum_, N.F. vii. (1850) pp. 520 _sq._ It seems to have been a common practice of parents to dedicate statues of their sons or daughters to the goddess at Paphos. The inscribed pedestals of many such statues were found by the English archaeologists. See _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, ix. (1888) pp. 228, 235, 236, 237, 241, 244, 246, 255. 135 Tacitus, _Hist._ ii. 4; Pausanias, viii. 24. 6. 136 Plutarch, _Cato the Younger_, 35. M29 Incest of Cinyras with his daughter Myrrha, and birth of Adonis. Legends of royal incest—a suggested explanation. 137 Ovid, _Metam._ x. 298 _sqq._; Hyginus, _Fab._ 58, 64; Fulgentius, _Mytholog._ iii. 8; Lactantius Placidius, _Narrat. Fabul._ x. 9; Servius on Virgil, _Ecl._ x. 18, and _Aen._ v. 72; Plutarch, _Parallela_, 22; Schol. on Theocritus, i. 107. It is Ovid who describes (_Metam._ x. 431 _sqq._) the festival of Ceres, at which the incest was committed. His source was probably the _Metamorphoses_ of the Greek writer Theodorus, which Plutarch (_l.c._) refers to as his authority for the story. The festival in question was perhaps the Thesmophoria, at which women were bound to remain chaste (Schol. on Theocritus, iv. 25; Schol. on Nicander, _Ther._ 70 _sq._; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxiv. 59; Dioscorides, _De Materia Medica_, i. 134 (135); compare Aelian, _De natura animalium_, ix. 26). Compare E. Fehrle, _Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum_ (Giessen, 1910), pp. 103 _sqq._, 121 _sq._, 151 _sqq._ The corn and bread of Cyprus were famous in antiquity. See Aeschylus, _Suppliants_, 549 (555); Hipponax, cited by Strabo, viii. 3. 8, p. 340; Eubulus, cited by Athenaeus, iii. 78, p. 112 F; E. Oberhummer, _Die Insel. Cypern_, i. (Munich, 1903) pp. 274 _sqq._ According to another account, Adonis was the fruit of the incestuous intercourse of Theias, a Syrian king, with his daughter Myrrha. See Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, iii. 14. 4 (who cites Panyasis as his authority); J. Tzetzes, _Schol. on Lycophron_, 829; Antoninus Liberalis, _Transform._ 34 (who lays the scene of the story on Mount Lebanon). With the corn-wreaths mentioned in the text we may compare the wreaths which the Roman Arval Brethren wore at their sacred functions, and with which they seem to have crowned the images of the goddesses. See G. Henzen, _Acta Fratrum Arvalium_ (Berlin,