IDALIA
IDALIA,
IDA´LIUM (
Ἰδάλιον: Eth.
Ἰδαλεύς,
Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 5.31), a town in Cyprus, adjoining to which was a forest sacred to Aphrodite; the poets who connect this place with her worship, give no indications of the precise locality. (Theocr.
Id. 15.100;
Verg. A. 1.681,
692,
10.51; Catull.
Pel. et Thet. 96; Propert. 2.13;
Lucan 8.17.) Engel (
Kypros, vol. i. p. 153) identifies it with
Dalin, described
[p. 2.14]by Mariti (
Viaggi, vol. i. p. 204), situated to the south of Leucosia, at the foot of Mount Olympus.
[
E.B.J]
