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74G APPENDIX NO. in.
another inscription, No. 52, found on the same site.
(See ante, p. 459.) It is probable, therefore, that the
temple of this goddess was in this neighbourhood.
It is to be presumed that the epithet 'laxuvSoTpoQai
is only a Doric form for 'TaxivQorpocptt)} Among* the
sculptures on the throne of Apollo at Amyche,
Hyakinthos and his sister Polyboia were represented
being conducted to heaven after death by Aphrodite,
Athene, and Artemis. (Pausan. iii. 19, § 4.) As
the worship of this latter goddess was associated
with that of water as the source of vegetation, and
as she was regarded as the protectress of the young,
and hence called xoooorootpog, iratioTootyog and 4><Ao-
ju.=7pa£, it seems natural that Hyakinthos, as the
type of the brief season of vernal bloom, should
be mythically connected with her. (See Welcker,
Gotterlehre, i. pp. 567, 582, and his Kleine Schriften,
i. p. 25.)
The name of the sculptor, Zenodotos, son of
Menippus, occurs on another Cnidian inscription,
infra, No. 79, but is not to be found in the list of
sculptors in Brunn's work on the Greek artists.
k As examples of the interchange of i and v, compare aiainvSivrEQ
for alavfivtiyrtQ (C. I. 3794) ; 'YTnruypa, 'Yir-acria, for 'h-Traypa,
'lTnrama(C. I. 2554,11. 106,127) J 'Aprc'tfivn for 'Apri^Bi (0. 1.1172).
We find also 'Epcdu^ioc and 'EpeOijiioc, Ross, Inscript. Ined. iii. p. 31.
Fulgentius (Mytliol. iii. 5) derives 'Yamvdoe from lit kvvQoq :—■
" Cynthos enim Attica lingua flos nunenpatur, unde hyacinthus
dicitur, quasi laKvrBus, quod nos Latini solus flos dicimus."
It seems probable from this that Fulgentius had seen the form
'IAkvi'Qoq in Greek MSS. Similarly, we find MnnX/,nj on coins
and inscriptions, though this name is constantly written MiruX^vij
in MSS. Schwenck, Etym. Mytliol. Andeutungen, Elberf. 1823,
p. 208, thinks that v&kivdoc may be compounded of 1W, a violet,
and kiiSoq, a kindred form to xlaaog, N('/p/c«r<rar.
another inscription, No. 52, found on the same site.
(See ante, p. 459.) It is probable, therefore, that the
temple of this goddess was in this neighbourhood.
It is to be presumed that the epithet 'laxuvSoTpoQai
is only a Doric form for 'TaxivQorpocptt)} Among* the
sculptures on the throne of Apollo at Amyche,
Hyakinthos and his sister Polyboia were represented
being conducted to heaven after death by Aphrodite,
Athene, and Artemis. (Pausan. iii. 19, § 4.) As
the worship of this latter goddess was associated
with that of water as the source of vegetation, and
as she was regarded as the protectress of the young,
and hence called xoooorootpog, iratioTootyog and 4><Ao-
ju.=7pa£, it seems natural that Hyakinthos, as the
type of the brief season of vernal bloom, should
be mythically connected with her. (See Welcker,
Gotterlehre, i. pp. 567, 582, and his Kleine Schriften,
i. p. 25.)
The name of the sculptor, Zenodotos, son of
Menippus, occurs on another Cnidian inscription,
infra, No. 79, but is not to be found in the list of
sculptors in Brunn's work on the Greek artists.
k As examples of the interchange of i and v, compare aiainvSivrEQ
for alavfivtiyrtQ (C. I. 3794) ; 'YTnruypa, 'Yir-acria, for 'h-Traypa,
'lTnrama(C. I. 2554,11. 106,127) J 'Aprc'tfivn for 'Apri^Bi (0. 1.1172).
We find also 'Epcdu^ioc and 'EpeOijiioc, Ross, Inscript. Ined. iii. p. 31.
Fulgentius (Mytliol. iii. 5) derives 'Yamvdoe from lit kvvQoq :—■
" Cynthos enim Attica lingua flos nunenpatur, unde hyacinthus
dicitur, quasi laKvrBus, quod nos Latini solus flos dicimus."
It seems probable from this that Fulgentius had seen the form
'IAkvi'Qoq in Greek MSS. Similarly, we find MnnX/,nj on coins
and inscriptions, though this name is constantly written MiruX^vij
in MSS. Schwenck, Etym. Mytliol. Andeutungen, Elberf. 1823,
p. 208, thinks that v&kivdoc may be compounded of 1W, a violet,
and kiiSoq, a kindred form to xlaaog, N('/p/c«r<rar.