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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_118240" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_118240" /> == | ||
<p> (n.) Love; the god of love; - by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the | <p> (n.) Love; the god of love; - by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72847" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72847" /> == | ||
<p> Latin, Cupido), the | <p> Latin, Cupido), the Greek god of love, the son of Aphrodité, and the youngest of the gods, though he figures in the cosmogony as one of the oldest of the gods, and as the uniting power in the life of the gods and the life of the universe, was represented at last as a wanton boy from whose wiles neither gods nor men were safe. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:14, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) Love; the god of love; - by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Latin, Cupido), the Greek god of love, the son of Aphrodité, and the youngest of the gods, though he figures in the cosmogony as one of the oldest of the gods, and as the uniting power in the life of the gods and the life of the universe, was represented at last as a wanton boy from whose wiles neither gods nor men were safe.
