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Cupid

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Cupid: see Eros Eros (ēr`ŏs, ĕr`–), in Greek religion and mythology, god of love.
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Cupid, classical statue; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
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Ancient Roman god of love in all its varieties, identified with the Greek Eros. Cupid was the son of Mercury and Venus. He was usually represented as a winged infant who carried a bow and quiver of arrows, which he shot at humans to inflict wounds that inspired love or passion. He was also sometimes depicted as a beautiful youth. Though generally considered beneficent, he could be mischievous in matchmaking, often at his mother's behest.

Cupid
disguised as Ascanius, son of Aeneas. [Gk. Myth.: Aeneid]
See : Disguise
Cupid
(Gk. Eros) god of love. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 70]
See : Love
Cupid
while sleeping, revealed by Psyche’s lamp as her lover. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 822]
See : Sleep
CUPID - A graphic query language.

["CUPID: A Graphic Oriented Facility for Support of Nonprogrammer Interactions with a Database", N. McDonald, PhD Thesis, CS Dept, UC Berkeley 1975].
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