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paphos
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What does paphos mean?
proper noun
- A city in Cyprus, known in antiquity as the birthplace of Aphrodite.
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I met her deity Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son Dove-drawn with her.
Strawberry Hill is grown a perfect Paphos; it is the land of beauties.
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I knew that the ruins of Paphos were scarcely, if at all, discernible, but there was a will and a longing more imperious than mere curiosity that drove me thither.
He himself sent forward Canidius, one of his friends, to Cyprus, to persuade Ptolemy to yield, without being forced; which if he did, he should want neither riches nor honor, for the Romans would give him the priesthood of the goddess at Paphos.
This part perform’d, the goddess flies sublime To visit Paphos and her native clime; Where garlands, ever green and ever fair, With vows are offer’d, and with solemn pray’r: A hundred altars in her temple smoke; A thousand bleeding hearts her pow’r invoke.