Love-god

Happy they who find the goddess come in moderate might, sharing with self-restraint in Aphrodite's gift of marriage and enjoying calm and rest from frenzied passions, wilerein the Love-god, golden-haired, stretches his charmed bow with arrows twain, and one is aimed at happiness, the other at life's confusion.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Happy they who find the goddess come in moderate might, sharing with self-restraint in Aphrodite's gift of marriage and enjoying calm and rest from frenzied passions, wilerein the Love-god, golden-haired, stretches his charmed bow with arrows twain, and one is aimed at happiness, the other at life's confusion.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Thou hast a subtle wit enough; yet were it a hateful thing for me to say that the Love-god constrained thee by his resistless shaft to save my life.

Medea 2008

Thou hast a subtle wit enough; yet were it a hateful thing for me to say that the Love-god constrained thee by his resistless shaft to save my life.

Medea 2008

From Greece, the Hindus received architectural designs, numismatic, and perhaps a few literary hints, but they got thence neither religious myths, nor, with the possible exception of the cult of the later Love-god and fresh encouragement to phallic

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

Love-god from the soul is even more than heart-break, -- it is utter and irretrievable loss, -- complete and dominating chaos out of which no good thing can ever be designed or created.

Ziska Marie Corelli 1889

One day came the mischievous Love-god to follow the plough-share's track:

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

Compare these two pictures of Cupid with the Love-god of the

Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859

Further, wretchedmost me betrayed to unfriendliest Love-god

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855