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Thread #66099   Message #1094461
Posted By: open mike
16-Jan-04 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: what is love
Subject: RE: BS: what is love
7 entries found for eros.
Er·os    (rs, îr-) n.
   1. Greek Mythology. The god of love, son of Aphrodite.
   2. often eros Creative, often sexual yearning, love, or desire: "The new playful eros means that impulses and modes from other spheres enter the relations between men and women" (Herbert Gold).
   3.
         1. Psychiatry. Sexual drive; libido.
         2. The sum of all instincts for self-preservation.
[Latin Ers, from Greek, from ers, sexual love.]
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( P ) eros:
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\E"ros\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? love, ? (personified) Eros, fr. ? to love.] (Greek Myth.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

eros

n : (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid [syn: Eros]


eros, LA (town, FIPS 24215)
Location: 32.39222 N, 92.42431 W
Population (1990): 177 (76 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 71238


eros
sounds like a good place to go! (or to send valentines to be postmarked)