Cupid: see Eros Eros , in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, romantic love, and playful, sportive love.
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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.
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Cupid, classical statue; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
(credit: Alinari—Art Resource/EB Inc.)
Cupid
1. the Roman god of love, represented as a winged boy with a bow and arrow
2. any similar figure, esp as represented in Baroque art
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disguised as Ascanius, son of Aeneas. [Gk. Myth.: Aeneid]
See : Disguise
Cupid
(Gk. Eros) god of love. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 70]
See : Love
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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]. |
Cupid
also Amor, in ancient Roman mythology, the deity of love, the personification of amorous passion. Cupid corresponds to the Greek god Eros. In art, beginning in the Hellenist epoch, cupids have been depicted as playful little boys.
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