Aphonia
in pathology, the greater or less impairment, or the complete loss of the power of emitting vocal sound.
The slightest and less permanent forms often arise from extreme nervousness, fright, and hysteria. Slight forms of structural aphonia are a catarrhal nature, resulting from more or less congestion and tumefaction of the mucous and sub-mucous tissues of the larynx and adjoining parts.
APHRODITE (af-rō-di'te), one of the chief divinities of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty, so called because she was sprung from the foam aphros of the sea. She was the wife of Hephæstus, but she loved besides, among gods, Ares and Dionysus, and among mortals, Anchises and Adonis.
The chief places of her worship in Greece were Cyprus and Cythera. In earlier times the patroness of marriage and maternity, she became later the ideal of graceful womanhood, and was spiritualized by Plato as Aphrodite Urania. By others she was degraded in Aphrodite Pandemos to be the patroness of mere sensual love. The worship of Aphrodite was originally the symbol of the fructifying powers of nature. Her cult was introduced by the Phoenicians into Cyprus, and soon spread over all Greece. She was originally identical with Astarte, the Ashtoreth of the Hebrews. By the Romans she was identified with finest statues of the goddess that still tant Roman divinities (see VENUS). The Venus, hitherto one of the least important Roman divinities (see VENUS). The finest statues of the goddess that still APHRODITE APIUM about the same distance from each other.
The old dome-shaped straw skep is still in general use among the cottagers of Great Britain. Its cheapness and simplicity of construction are in its favor, while it is excellent for warmth. It has the disadvantage that its interior is closed to inspection, and the honey can only be got out by stupefying the bees with smoke or chloroform, or by fumigating tion of the swarm. Wooden hives of tion of the swarm. square, boxlike form are now gaining general favor among bee keepers. They Wooden hives of usually consist of a large breeding chamboxes called supers above for the ab- ber below and two sliding removable boxes called supers above for the abthe contents of the main chamber. When straction of honey without disturbing the contents of the main chamber. When their stores of honey are removed the bees must be fed during the winter and part of spring with syrup or with a bees must be fed during the winter and their stores of honey are removed the solution consisting of two pounds loaf sugar to a pint of water. See BEE.