A.“ἤρων” Hdt.9.108, E.Fr. 161, Ar.Ach.146:—Pass., “ἀντ-ερᾶται” X.Smp.8.3 ; opt. “ἐρῷο” Id.Hier.11.11 ; inf. “ἐρᾶσθαι” Plu.Brut.29, etc.; part. ἐρώμενος (v. infr.):— also ἐράομαι , 3sg.“ἐρᾶται” Plu.2.753b, Philostr.Gym.48 (ἐράασθε v. sub ἔραμαι): all other tenses will be found under ἔραμαι:—love, c. gen. pers., prop. of the sexual passion, to be in love with (“οὐκ ἐρᾷ ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφῆς..οὐδὲ πατὴρ θυγατρός” X.Cyr.5.1.10), “ἤρα τῆς..γυναικός” Hdt. 9.108, etc.: c. acc. cogn., “ἐρᾶν ἔρωτα” E.Hipp.32, Pl.Smp.181b : abs., ἐρῶν a lover, v.l. in Pi.O.1.80 (pl.), S.Fr.149.8 (pl.); opp. “ἡ ἐρωμένη” the beloved one, Hdt.3.31, S.E.P.3.196 ; “[ὁ] ἐρώμενος” X.Smp.8.36, Pl.Phdr.239a, cf. Ar.Eq.737 (pl.); τὸν ἐρώμενον αὐτοῦ, Lat. delicias ejus, Arist.Pol.1303b23.
2. without sexual reference, love warmly, opp. “φιλέω, οὐδ᾽ ἤρα οὐδ᾽ ἐφίλει” Pl.Ly.222a:—and in Pass., “ὥστε οὐ μόνον φιλοῖο ἂν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐρῷο” X.Hier.11.11, cf. Plu.Brut.29 ; “κινεῖ [τὸ οὗ ἕνεκα] ὡς ἐρώμενον” Arist.Metaph.1072b3.
II. c. gen. rei, love or desire passionately, “τυραννίδος” Archil.25.3 ; “τερπνότατον τοῦ τις ἐρᾷ τὸ τυχεῖν” Thgn.256 ; “μάχης ἐρῶν” A.Th.392 ; “μόνος θεῶν γὰρ Θάνατος οὐ δώρων ἐρᾷ” Id.Fr.161 ; “ἀμηχάνων ἐρᾷς” S.Ant.90 ; “πατρίδος ἐρᾶν” E. Ph.359 ; “οὗ ἐπιθυμεῖ τε καὶ ἐρᾷ” Pl.Smp.200a : and c. inf., desire to do, A.Fr.44.1 ; “θανεῖν ἐρᾷ” S.Ant.220 ; “ἀποθανεῖν ἐρῶντες” Hp.de Arte 7 ; “φαγεῖν” Ar.Ach.146 ; “πληροῦσθαι” Pl.Phlb.35a.
