ἔρως (eros)
Short definition (LSJ): passionate joy,
Full entry: Lexicon.
242 occurrences of this form in 74 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Symposium
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Idylls
- Argonautica
- Hippolytus
- Laws
- Phaedrus
- Birds
- Republic
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
- Agamemnon
- Ecclesiazusae
- The Trojan Women
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Medea
- The Suppliants
- Iliad
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- On Drunkenness
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
- Cratylus
- Antigone
- Trachiniae
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Cyropaedia
- Symposium
- Prometheus Bound
- The Eumenides
- The Libation Bearers
- The Suppliants
- Acharnians
- Lysistrata
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Discourses
- Alcestis
- Rhesus
- The Phoenician Women
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- On the Mysteries
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 15
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
- The Jewish War, Book 5
- The Jewish War, Book 6
- The Jewish War, Book 7
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Giants
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Alcibiades I
- Charmides
- Gorgias
- Lysis
- Theaetetus
- Timaeus
- On Controlling Anger
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Education of Children
- Platonic Questions
- Letter to Marcella
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Anabasis
- Hellenica
- Memorabilia
Example passages
…πρῶτον μὲν γάρ, ὥσπερ λέγω, ἔφη Φαῖδρον ἀρξάμενον ἐνθένδε ποθὲν λέγειν, ὅτι μέγας θεὸς εἴη ὁ Ἔρως καὶ θαυμαστὸς ἐν ἀνθρώποις τε καὶ θεοῖς, πολλαχῇ μὲν καὶ ἄλλῃ, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ κατὰ τὴν γένεσιν. τὸ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς πρεσβύτατον…
……καὶ ἧττον ἓν ὁ κόσμος ὁ αἰσθητὸς ἢ ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ, ὥστε καὶ πολὺς μᾶλλον καὶ ἡ ἐναντιότης μᾶλλον καὶ ἡ τοῦ ζῆν ἔφεσις μᾶλλον ἑκάστῳ καὶ ὁ ἔρως τοῦ εἰς ἓν μᾶλλον. φθείρει δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐρῶντα τὰ ἐρώμενα πολλάκις εἰς τὸ αὑτῶν ἀγαθὸν σπεύδοντα, ὅταν φθαρτὰ ᾖ, καὶ ἡ ἔφεσις δὲ τοῦ μέρους πρὸς τὸ ὅλον ἕλκει εἰς αὐτὸ ὃ δύναται. οὕτως οὖν καὶ οἱ……
……πάρεστι καὶ οὐ θαμβεῖ ποτε ἰδόντας, ὅτι σύνεστιν ἀεὶ καὶ οὐ ποτὲ ἡ ἀνάμνησις: οὐ μὴν ὁρῶσιν αὐτό, ὅτι κοιμωμένοις πάρεστι. τοῦ δὲ καλοῦ ὁ ἔρως, ὅταν παρῇ, ὀδύνας δίδωσιν, ὅτι δεῖ ἰδόντας ἐφίεσθαι. δεύτερος ὢν οὗτος ὁ ἔρως καὶ ἤδη συνιέντων μᾶλλον δεύτερον μηνύει τὸ καλὸν εἶναι: ἡ δὲ ἀρχαιοτέρα τούτου καὶ ἀναίσθητος ἔφεσις ἀρχαιότερόν φησι……