[45] _Linschotten_, “Orientalische Schiffahrt,” (Oriental Voyage), Pt. I. ch. 33. [46] _Orpheus_, Argonaut. 422.—_Lucian_, De Saltat. ch. 27., Dialog. Deorum, 2. [47] _Strabo_, XI. p. 495. [48] _Herodotus_, bk. I. ch. 105., καὶ γὰρ τὸ ἐν Κύπρῳ ἱρὸν ἐνθεῦτεν ἐγένετο, ὡς αὐτοὶ λέγουσι Κύπριοι· καὶ τὸ ἐν Κυθήροισι Φοίνικές εἰσι οἱ ἱδρυσάμενοι, ἐκ ταύτης τῆς Συρίης ἐόντες, (for the Temple in Cyprus was built from it,—i.e. in imitation of the temple of Venus at Ascalon, as the Cyprians themselves admit; and that in Cythera was erected by the Phoenicians, who belong to this part of Syria.). _Clemens Alexandrinus_, Ad Gentes, p. 10., speaks of Cinyras as having been the man who introduced the temple-service in Cyprus. Comp. _Jul. Firmicus_, De Error. profan. relig. p. 22. _Arnobius_, Ad Gentes, bk. V., (for the Temple in Cyprus was built from it,—i.e. in imitation of the temple of Venus at Ascalon, as the Cyprians themselves admit; and that in Cythera was erected by the Phoenicians, who belong to this part of Syria.). _Clemens Alexandrinus_, Ad Gentes, p. 10., speaks of Cinyras as having been the man who introduced the temple-service in Cyprus. Comp. _Jul. Firmicus_, De Error. profan. relig. p. 22. _Arnobius_, Ad Gentes, bk. V. [49] Ποντία, Λιμενιάς (of the Sea, of Harbours), at Hermioné, _Pausanias_, Attica ch. 34. _Mitscherlich_, on Horace, Odes bk. I. 3. 1. Also the epithet εὔπλοια (of fair Winds), _Pausanias_, Attica I. 3., should be mentioned here. _Musaeus_, Hero and Leander 245. _Horace_, Odes III. 26. 3. “Venus Marina”, (Venus of the Sea). [50] _Pausanias_, bk. III. 23., VI. 25., VIII. 32., IX. 16.—_Plato_, Sympos.—_Xenophon_, Sympos. ch. 8. [51] _Augustine_, De Civit. Dei, bk. IV. ch. 10. “An Veneres duae sunt, una virgo, una mulier? An potius tres, una virginum, quae etiam Vesta est, alia conjugatarum, alia meretricum? (Are there two Venuses, one a virgin, the second a matron? Or rather are there three, one of virgins, who is also Vesta, another of wives, another of harlots?) [52] “Quae Cnidon fulgentesque tenet Cycladas et Paphon,” (The goddess who haunts Cnidos and the gleaming Cyclades and Paphos), _Horace_, Odes III. 28. 13. Ἐνοικέτις τῶν νήσων (Inhabitress of the isles), _Suidas_. [53] Remarkably enough some would derive the name _Bordeaux_ (_Bordel_) from the French _bord_ and _eau_, because the houses of ill-fame were almost always to be found on the bank of the river or in bagnios! _Parent-Duchatelet_, “Die Sittenverderbniss in der Stadt Paris,” (The Corruption of Morals in the City of Paris), Vol. I. p. 125. [54] _Strabo_, XIV. 683. [55] _Suidas_, under expression κυλλοῦ πήραν (cripple’s wallet) quotes that here—at Pera,—was a Fountain which made fruitful and facilitated delivery.