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the Saturday Review. We must seek them in the remains of Greek sculpture, in Hesiod and Homer, in the Greek tragedians, in the hymns of Orpheus, Callimachus, and Proclus, and in the Anthology. We are apt to regard the Greek myths as only a chaos of confused fancies. Yet it often takes very little pains to disentangle them, at ssey, as a relief from graver song, and half disavows it, as if knowing its irreverence. The true Aphrodite is to be sought in the hymns of Homer, Orpheus, and Proclus. The last invokes her as yet a virgin. *basilhi/da kourafrodi/thn Proclus, Hymn 3. 1. It is essential to her very power that she should have the provocation of Proclus, Hymn 3. 1. It is essential to her very power that she should have the provocation of modesty. She represents that passion which is the basis of purity, for the author of Ecce Homo admirably says, that No heart is pure which is not passionate. Accordingly, married love is as sacred to Aphrodite as the virgin condition; *)afrodi/th ga/mou plokai=s h(/detai. Tatian,Orat. contra Graecos, c. 8. if she misleads, it