Ἔρωτες (Erotes)

Ἔρωτες is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρως, meaning “love”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.452: ὥρμαινʼ, ὅσσα τʼ Ἔρωτες ἐποτρύνουσι μέλεσθαι.

Euripides, Medea 330: φεῦ φεῦ, βροτοῖς ἔρωτες ὡς κακὸν μέγα.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 2·2: ἀλλὰ τὸν μὲν οὔπω τοῖς δεσμοῖς τοῦ γάμου συνεζευγμένον λυσσώδεις ἐπιθυμίαι καὶ ὁρμαὶ δυσκάθεκτοι καὶ ἔρωτές τινες δυσέρωτες ἐκταράσσουσι· τὸν δὲ ἤδη συγκατειλημμένον ὁμοζύγῳ ἕτερος θόρυβος φροντίδων ἐκδέχεται· ἐν ἀπαι …

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.