Paphos

, now Bafo , a famous city of the island of Cyprus, founded, as some suppose, about 1184 years before Christ, by Agapenor, at the head of a colony from Arcadia. The godde of beauty was particularly worshipped there, and all male animals were offered on her altars, which, though 100 in number, daily smoked with the profusion of Arabian frankincense. The inhabitants were very effeminate and lascivious, and the young virgins were permitted by the laws of the place to get a dowry by prostitution. Strabo , bk. 8 , . — Pliny , bk. 2 , ch. 96 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Homer , Ody ey , bk. 8 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 419 , . ; bk. 10 , li. 51 , . — Horace , bk. 1 , ode 30, li. 1 .— Tacitus , Annals , bk. 3 , ch. 62 ; Histories , bk. 2 , ch. 2 .