Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 991
Ail. de nat. an.6. 55, var. hist. 1. ■24). A statue of the youthful Zeus Kdsios at Pelousion held a pome-granate in its outstretched hand {supra ii. 986 n. o). Aphrodite is said to have planted the pomegranate in Kypros (Eriphos Meliboiafrag. I, II f. {Frag. com. Gr. iii. 556 f. Meineke) ap. Athen.… … Fig. 623. made him companion to his son Adonis and gave him to wife Pelia, a relative of his ownwho was likewise a devotee of Aphrodite. Pelia bore Melos a son, called Melos after hisfather; and the boy was brought up inter aras, i.e. in the precinct of Aphrodite. WhenAdonis was killed by the boar,…
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