(Κνιδία), a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cnidus in Caria, for which Praxiteles made his celebrated statue of the goddess. The statue of Aphrodite known by the name of the Medicean Venus, is considered by many critics to be a copy of the Cnidian Aphrodite. (Paus. 1.1.3; Plin. Nat. 36.5; Lucian, Amor. 13; Hirt, Mythol. Bilderb. p. 57.)