(Whosoe’er comes hither must become a poet and dedicate to me some merry lines; whoe’er refuses, amidst the learned let him walk most wooden of poets.—N.B. _ficosus_ means at once like a fig-tree and _afflicted with piles_; perhaps we might render “most costive of poets”.) (Thou beholdest, whoe’er thou art, around the plaster of our walls lines teeming with not too chastened a wit.) also in _Martial_, bk. XII. Epigr. 62. we read: Qui carbone rudi, putrique creta Scribit carmina, quae legunt cacantes. (Who with rough charcoal or crumbly chalk writes verses that men read as they shit.) [10] _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 10. ὅσοι δὲ τὴν παραβολὴν διώκουσι, πταίουσι περὶ τὸ κατὰ φύσιν, _σφᾶς αὐτοὺς βλάπτοντες_, κατὰ τὰς παρανόμους συνουσίας. (“Now they that follow the parable sin aginst nature, _hurting their own selves_, according to their lawless conversation.”) [11] _Larcher_, “Mémoire sur Venus,” (Memoir on Venus). Paris 1775. pp. 312. 8vo.—_De la Chau_, “Dissertation sur les Attributs de Venus,” (Dissertation on the Attributes of Venus. Paris 1776. pp. 91. 4to. In German, by C. Richter. Vienna 1783. pp. 179. 8vo.—_J. C. F. Manso_, “Ueber die Venus,” (On Venus): in “Versuche über einige Gegenstände aus der Mythologie der Griechen und Römer,” (Essays on certain Subjects from the Mythology of the Greeks and Romans). Leipzig 1784. large 8vo. pp. 1-308. The Treatise is the most complete account we possess on the subject of Venus.—_Lenz, C. G._, “Die Göttin von Paphos auf alten Bildwerken und Baphomet,” (The Goddess of Paphos in Ancient Sculptures and Baphomet.) Gotha 1808. pp. 26. 4to., with Copperplates.—_Münter, Fr._, “Der Tempel der himmlischen Göttin zu Paphos,” (The Temple of the heavenly Goddess at Paphos). Copenhagen 1824. pp. 40. with Copperplates.—_Lajard, Felix._ “Recherche sur le culte, les symboles, les attributs et les monuments figurés de Venus en orient et en occident,” (Researches on the Cult, Symbols, Attributes and artistic Monuments of Venus in East and West). Paris 1834. 4to., with 30 Plates, fol. Known to us only from the notices. [12] _Orpheus_, Hymn. 55. Οὐρανίη Ἀφροδίτη, παντογενὴς, γενέτειρα θεὰ, γεννᾷς δὲ τὰ πὰντα, ὅσσα τ’ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐστι καὶ ἐν γαίῃ πολυκάρπῳ ἐν πόντου τε βυθῷ. γαμοστόλε, μῆτερ ἐρώτῶν. (Heavenly Aphrodité, parent of all, mother Goddess,—for thou engenderest all things, all things that are in heaven and in fruitful earth and in depth of ocean,—harbinger of marriage, mother of loves). [Transcriber’s Note: παντογενὴς (parent of all) should read ποντογενὴς (sea-born).] _Homer_, Hymn. 9. to Venus: Κυπρογενῆ Κυθέρειαν ἀείσομαι, _ἥτε βροτοῖσιν μείλιχα δῶρα δίδωσιν_, ἐφ’ ἱμερτῷ δὲ προσώπῳ αἰεὶ μειδιάει, καὶ ἐφ’ ἱμερτὸν φέρει ἄνθος. (Cyprus-born Cytherea will I sing, who _to men gives sweet gifts_, and on her lovely visage has ever a smile, and brings a lovely blossom of love). [13] _Hesiod_, Theogonia, 190-206.