Παφία

Paphian

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝23 May 2002Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words
[sc. An epithet of] Aphrodite.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παφία· ἡ Ἀφροδίτη.

Betacode
*pafi/a: h( *)afrodi/th.

Notes

  1. After Paphos on the west coast of Cyprus, where Aphrodite was said to have emerged from the sea at her birth (Hesiod, Theogony 193-200, etc.).

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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Sep 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. augmented note — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Ross Scaife ✝

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