Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 990
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. 1, 11 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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