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CUPID (Cupido, " desire ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUPID (Cupido, "
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desire ")  , the Latin name for the
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god of love,
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EROS (q.v.) .
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Cupid is generally identical with Amor . The
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idea of the god of love in
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Roman
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poetry is due to the
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influence of Alexandrian poets and artists, in whose hands he degenerated into a mischievous boy with essentially human characteristics . His usual attribute is the
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bow . For the
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story of Cupid and
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Psyche, see under PSYCHE .

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