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ἔρωτος (erotos)

ἔρωτος is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρως, meaning “love”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 287 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.972: μέλλον ἅλις φθέγξασθαι ὑπὸ πνοιῇσιν Ἔρωτος.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.13.122: … δρείας πρῶτον, δεύτερον, τρίτον. Περὶ νόμου. Περὶ δημαγωγίας. Περὶ τιμῆς. Περὶ ποιήσεως. Περὶ εὐπαθείας. Περὶ ἔρωτος. Περὶ φιλοσοφίας Περὶ ἐπιστήμης. Περὶ μουσικῆς. Περὶ ποιήσεως.

Plutarch, Amatorius 1: Ἑν Ἑλικῶνι φῆς, ὦ Λύτόβουλε, τοὺς περὶ Ἑρωτος λόγους γενέσθαι, οὓς εἴτε γραψάμενος εἴτε καταμνημονεύσας τῷ πολλάκις ἐπανερέσθαι τὸν πατέρα νυνὶ μέλλεις ἡμῖ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.