god
Venus
also: Veneres
Goddess of love and desire; invoked in the plural ('Venuses and Cupids') as a swarm of love-spirits (poems 3, 13).
Reading notes
- Carmina §3 Venuses and Cupids
Venus, goddess of love, pluralized into a swarm of love-spirits summoned to mourn.
- Carmina §13 Venuses
Venus and Cupid pluralized as love-spirits, the givers of the perfume.
- Carmina §64 Erycina
Venus, worshipped on Mount Eryx in Sicily; the goddess of love who maddens Ariadne.
- Carmina §68a Amathusia
Venus, worshipped at Amathus on Cyprus; 'the two-faced Amathusia' is the goddess of a love both sweet and ruinous.