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Eros

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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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.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Eros'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​e/eros.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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