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ἔρως , ωτος, ὁ, acc. ἔρων for
A.“ἔρωτα” Alex.Aet.3.12, AP9.39 (Musicius) : in Ep. and Lyr. usu. ἔρος (q. v.) : (ἕραμαι, ἐράω A):—love, mostly of the sexual passion, “θηλυκρατὴς ἔ.” A.Ch.600 (lyr.) ; “ἐρῶσ᾽ ἔρωτ᾽ ἔκδημον” E.Hipp.32 ; ἔ. τινός love for one, S.Tr.433 ; “παίδων” E. Ion67 : generally, love of a thing, desire for i it, “πατρῴας γῆς” A.Ag.540 ; “δεινὸς εὐκλείας ἔ.” Id.Eu.865, etc. ; “ἔχειν ἔμφυτον ἔρωτα περί τι” Pl.Lg. 782e ; “πρὸς τοὺς λόγους” Luc.Nigr.Praef.; “ἔρωτα σχὼν τῆς Ἑλλάδος τύραννος γενέσθαι” Hdt.5.32 ; ἔ. ἔχει με c. inf., A.Supp.521 ; “θανόντι κείνῳ συνθανεῖν ἔρως μ᾽ ἔχει” S.Fr.953 ; “αὐτοῖς ἦν ἔρως θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι” Id.OC367 ; ἔ. ἐμπίπτει μοι c. inf., A.Ag.341, cf. Th.6.24 ; εἰς ἔρωτά τινος ἀφικέσθαι, ἐλθεῖν, Antiph.212.3,Anaxil.21.5 : pl., loves, amours, “ἀλλοτρίων” Pi.N.3.30 ; “οὐχ ὅσιοι ἔ.” E.Hipp.765 (lyr.) ; “ἔρωτες ἐμᾶς πόλεως” Ar.Av.1316 (lyr.), etc. ; of dolphins, “πρὸς παῖδας” Arist.HA631a10 : generally, desires, S.Ant.617 (lyr.).
2. object of love or desire, “ἀπρόσικτοι ἔρωτες” Pi.N.11.48, cf. Luc.Tim.14.
3. passionate joy, S.Aj.693 (lyr.).
II. pr. n., the god of love, Anacr.65, Parm.13, E.Hipp.525 (lyr.), etc. ; “Έ. ἀνίκατε μάχαν” S.Ant.781 (lyr.) : in pl., Simon.184.3, etc.
III. at Nicaea, a funeral wreath, EM379.54.
IV. name of the κλῆρος Ἀφροδίτης, Cat.Cod.Astr.1.168 ; = third κλῆρος, Paul.Al.K.3 ; one of the τόποι, Vett.Val.69.16.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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