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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![to Alfpafia was fpread to Ionia and through- out Greece ;: ~Peloponnefus alfo was filled with difcourfes of the love betwixt Cyrus and her. The report went even to the great King [of Perfia,] for it was conceived that. Cyrus, atter his acquaintance with her, kept company with no other’ woman. From” thefe: things Afpafia recollected the remembrance of her old apparition, and of the dove, and her words, and what the goddefs foretold her. Hence fhe conceived that fhe was from the very beginning particularly regarded by her. She therefore offered facrifice of thanks to Venus. And firft caufed a great image: of gold to be ereéted to her, which the called the image of Venus, and by it placed the picture of a dove befet with jewels, and every day implored the favour of the goddefs with facrifice and prayer. She fent to Hermotimus her father many rich prefents, and made him wealthy. She lived continently all her life, as both the Grecian and Perfian women. af- firm. Ona time a neck-lace was fent as a- prefent to Cyrus from Scopas the younger, which had been fent to Scopas out of Sicily. ‘Phe — lace was of extraordinary work- - manfhip,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33279561_0310.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
