A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

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Title: A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.
Author: Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Nicholson ... Tho. Newborough ... and John Bulford ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: Classical dictionaries.; Rome -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Dictionaries.
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CUPIDO,

The God of Love, according to the fable. There are several opinions concerning his birth. Hefiod says, he was born of the Chaos and the Earth; Tully after Lucian, of Mars and Venus; Arcesilas says, that he was the Son of the Night and the Air; Sapho of Calus and Venus; Seneca of Vulcan and Venus. Ovid and Plutarch are of opinion, that there were two Cupids, one celestial, which is innocent Love, and the other terre∣stial, which is filthy Love; the first born of Venus and Jupiter, the second of Erebus and the Night. He is represented like a Boy, naked and winged, with a vail over his eyes, car∣rying a quiver upon his Shoulders; and holding a Torch with one hand, and a Bow and some darts with the other, wherewith he wounded the hearts of Lovers.

Plutarch tells us, that the Aegyptians and Greeks had two Cupids, one Celestial, and the other Common.

Lucian seems to be of that opinion in the Dialogue betwixt Venus and Cupid; for there Cupid confesses, that tho he had pierced with his Darts all the other Gods, yet he had met with some hearts that were impenetrable, viz. Minerva's, the Muses, and Diana's.