Aphrodite (Aphrodi`te) , the Greek goddess of love and beauty, wife of Hephæstos and mother of Cupid; sprung from sea-foam; as queen of beauty had the golden apple awarded her by Paris, and possessed the power of conferring beauty, by means of her magic girdle, the cestus, on others.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aph`ides * Api`cius