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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, " See also:desire ") , the Latin name for the See also:god of love, See also:EROS (q.v.). Cupid is generally identical with Amor. The See also:idea of the god of love in See also:Roman See also:poetry is due to the See also:influence of Alexandrian poets and artists, in whose hands he degenerated into a mischievous boy with essentially human characteristics. His usual attribute is the See also:bow. For the See also:story of Cupid and See also:Psyche, see under PSYCHE.

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