for his skill on the harp was
called _Cinyras_, and was said to be exceedingly beloved by _Apollo_ or
_Orus_: the great _Bacchus_ loved his wife, and being caught in bed with
her in _Phrygia_ appeased him with wine, and composed the matter by making
him King of _Byblus_ and _Cyprus_; and then came over the _Hellespont_ with
his army, and conquered _Thrace:_ and to these things the poets allude, in
feigning that _Vulcan_ fell from heaven into _Lemnos_, and that _Bacchus_
[296] appeased him with wine, and reduced him back into heaven: he fell
from the heaven of the _Cretan_ Gods, when he went from _Crete_ to _Lemnos_
to work in metals, and was reduced back into heaven when _Bacchus_ made him
King of _Cyprus_ and _Byblus_: he Reigned there 'till a very great age,
living to the times of the _Trojan_ war, and becoming exceeding rich: and
after the death of his wife _Calycopis_, [297] he built Temples to her at
_Paphos_ and _Amathus_, in _Cyprus_; and at _Byblus_ in _Syria_, and
instituted Priests to her with Sacred Rites and lustful _Orgia_; whence she
became the _Dea Cypria_, and the _Dea Syria_: and from Temples erected to
her in these and other places, she was also called _Paphia_, _Amathusia_,
_Byblia_, _Cytherea_ _Salaminia_, _Cnidia_, _Erycina_, _Idalia_. _Fama
tradit a Cinyra sacratum vetustissimum Paphiae Veneris templum, Deamque
ipsam conceptam mari huc appulsam_: _Tacit. Hist._ l. 2. c. 3. From her
sailing from _Phrygia_ to the island _Cythera_, and from thence to be Queen
of _Cyprus_, she was said by the _Cyprians_, to be born of the froth of the
sea, and was painted sailing upon a shell. _Cinyras_ Deified also his son
_Gingris_, by the name of _Adonis_; and for assisting the _Egyptians_ with
armour, it is probable that he himself was Deified by his friends the
_Egyptians_, by the name of _Baal-Canaan_, or _Vulcan_: for _Vulcan_ was
celebrated principally by the _Egyptians_, and was a King according to
_Homer_, and Reigned in _Lemnos_; and _Cinyras_ was an inventor of arts,
[298] and found out copper in _Cyprus_, and the smiths hammer, and anvil,
and tongs, and laver; and imployed workmen in making armour, and other
things of brass and iron, and was the only King celebrated in history for
working in metals, and was King of _Lemnos_, and the husband of _Venus_;
all which are the characters of _Vulcan_: and the _Egyptians_ about the
time of the death of _Cinyras_, _viz._ in the Reign of their King
_Amenophis_, built a