Ἀφροδίτη

They sculpt the statue of her holding a comb, since a pestilential itch once afflicted the womenfolk of the Romans,¹ and when they all shaved themselves, their combs became useless to them; they prayed to Aphrodite to regrow their hair and honoured her with a statue [of her] holding a comb and having a beard; because she had both male and female parts. For they say she was the overseer of every birth, and they say she was a man from her loins up and a woman down below. But they also sculpt her on horseback, because Aeneas, her son, sailed off to the west and after this rode on horseback, and honoured his mother with this sort of statue.