Apos trophi a

, a surname of Venus in Bœotia, who was distinguished under these names, Venus Urania, Vulgar i a, and Apos trophi a. The former was the patrone of a pure and chaste love; the second of carnal and sensual desires; and the last incited men to illicit and unnatural gratifications, to incests, and rapes. Venus Apos trophi a was invoked by the The bans, that they might be saved from such unlawful desires. She is the same as the Vert i cord i a of the Romans. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 16 .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 8 , ch. 15 .