Yet "the art of Aphrodite," "so Cypris ordained their form," are assertions of designing intelligence.
They are the remains of shells of a very minute crustacean, Cypris and Cypridea, from which the shales are known as Cyprid shales.
Fair was the form of Cypris, while Adonis was living, but p. 173her beauty has died with Adonis!
And Cypris went on her way through the glens of Olympus to find her boy.
But Cypris loves thee far more than the kiss wherewith she kissed the dying Adonis.