ἔρως, ωτος, ὁ,
accusative ἔρων for ἔρωτα [[ 3rd c.BC: Alexander Aetolus Elegiacus 3.12, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.39 (from Musicius)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry usually ἔρος (which see): (ἕραμαι, ἐράω A):—love, mostly of the sexual passion, θηλυκρατὴς ἔ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 600 (Lyric poetry); ἐρῶσ᾽ ἔρωτ᾽ ἔκδημον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. τινός love for one, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 433; παίδων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 67 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, love of a thing, desire for i it, πατρῴας γῆς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 540; δεινὸς εὐκλείας ἔ. [prev. author] “Eu.” 865, etc.; ἔχειν ἔμφυτον ἔρωτα περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 782e; πρὸς τοὺς λόγους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.Praef.”; ἔρωτα σχὼν τῆς Ἑλλάδος τύραννος γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἔχει με with infinitive, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 521; θανόντι κείνῳ συνθανεῖν ἔρως μ᾽ ἔχει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 953; αὐτοῖς ἦν ἔρως θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι [prev. author] “OC” 367 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἐμπίπτει μοι with infinitive, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 341, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἔρωτά τινος ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 212.3, 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 21.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: plural, loves, amours, ἀλλοτρίων [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.30; οὐχ ὅσιοι ἔ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 765 (Lyric poetry); ἔρωτες ἐμᾶς πόλεως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1316 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; of dolphins, πρὸς παῖδας [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 631a10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: generally, desires, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 617 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]