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“Of the most venerable are the honors of this god, and the proof of it is this: parents of Love there are none, nor are any recorded in either prose or verse. Hesiod says that Chaos came first into being—and thereafter roseBroad-breasted Earth, sure seat of all for aye,And Love.Hes. Theog. 116AcusilausAn Argive compiler of genealogies in the first part of the fifth century B.C. also agrees with Hesiod, saying that after Chaos were born these two, Earth and Love. Parmenides says of Birth that she invented Love before all other gods.Parmenides fr. 132Cf. Aristot. Met. 1.98