amor
Short definition (Lewis & Short): love (to friends, parents, etc.; and also in a low sense; hence in gen., like amo, while caritas, like diligere, is esteem, regard, etc.; hence amor is used also of brutes, but caritas only of men; v
Full entry: Lexicon.
275 occurrences of this form in 27 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Metamorphoses
- Ars Amatoria
- Aeneid
- Letters to Lucilius
- Letters to Friends
- Letters
- Eclogues
- Epigrams
- Georgics
- Letters to Atticus
- Odes
- Histories
- Poems
- Phaedra
- Annals
- Satires
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Medea
- The Golden Ass
- Satires
- De Officiis
- De Oratore
- Epistles
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Shortness of Life
- Life of Titus
- Germania
Example passages
…insidiaeque et vis et amor sceleratus habendi. Vela dabat ventis (nec adhuc bene noverat illos) navita; quaeque diu steterant in montibus altis, fluctibus ignotis insultavere carinae, communemque prius ceu lumina solis et……
……non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur, Arte leves currus: arte regendus amor. Curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis,…
…per tot ducta viros antiqua ab origine gentis. Aeneas (neque enim patrius consistere mentem passus amor) rapidum ad navis praemittit Achaten, Ascanio ferat haec, ipsumque ad moenia ducat; omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis.…