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| In Greek mythology a king of Cyprus, who became so enamoured of the statue of a maiden which be himself was carving in ivory that he implored Aphrodite to endue it with life. When the goddess granted his prayer, he married the maiden, and she bore to him a son named Paphos [Ovid, Met. x 243]. | |
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