111/122 Cythera is an island off the southern coast of Greece. All four were celebrated in antiquity as centres of the worship of Venus. The robber was Paris, who carried off Helen. _Ismarus_ was a prince from Lydia, a district in Asia Minor, called Maeonia in ancient times. The Pactolus was a river in Maeonia, famous on account of the quantity of gold it washed down. |