Paphian

Paphian englanniksi

1. Pertaining to love or sexual desire, especially when illicit. (defdate)

2. (quote-book)

3. Of or relating to Paphos, the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love on the island of Cyprus. (defdate)

4. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)

5. (RQ:Cowper Homer) loos’d the ſnare, / And they, detain’d by thoſe coercive bands / No longer, from the couch upſtarting, flew, / (mythology)|Mars into Thrace, and to her Paphian home / The Queen of ſmiles, where deep in myrtle groves / Her incenſe-breathing altar ſtands embow’r’d.

6. A prostitute.

7. {{quote-text|en|year=1824|author=Lord Byron|title=Juan (Byron)/Canto the Eleventh|Don Juan|section=Canto the Eleventh, XXX

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1980|author=Gene Wolfe|title=The Shadow of the Torturer|chapter=9

9. A resident of Paphos.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1854|translator=Charles Duke Yonge|author=Athenaeus of Naucratis|title=The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned|volume=II|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?id=Literature.AthV2|page=777