Cupid

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.2 Cupid

  The boy-god of desire, hovering about Venus.

• The Odes §1.30 the ardent boy

  Cupid, bidden to hasten with Venus.

• The Odes §2.8 Cupid

  The boy-god, 'forever whetting his burning arrows on a bloody stone.'

• The Odes §3.12 winged boy

  Cupid, son of Venus, who robs the girl of her spinning for love.

• The Odes §4.1 Desires

  The 'sweet Desires' (Cupids) whose cruel mother Venus is asked to spare the poet.

• The Odes §4.13 Cupid

  Who flies past withered Lyce to keep watch on young Chia's cheeks.

• The Epodes §17 free Cupido

  Cupid, god of desire; the 'rites of free Cupido' are the licentious mysteries Canidia says Horace laid bare.