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|lshtext=<b>ămor</b>: (old form ămŏs, [[like]] [[honos]], [[labos]], [[colos]], etc., Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 2; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 170), ōris, m. amo,<br /><b>I</b> [[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 amo init.): Amicitiae caritate et amore cernuntur. Nam cum deorum, tum parentum, patriaeque [[cultus]], eorumque hominum, qui aut sapientiā aut opibus excellunt, ad caritatem referri solet. Conjuges [[autem]] et [[liberi]] et fratres et alii, quos [[usus]] familiaritasque conjunxit, [[quamquam]] [[etiam]] caritate ipsā, [[tamen]] amore [[maxime]] continentur, Cic. Part. Or. 25, 88; cf. id. ib. 16, 56; Doed. Syn. IV. p. 100 ([[but]] [[amor]] is [[related]] to [[benevolentia]] as the [[cause]] to the [[effect]], [[since]] [[benevolentia]] designates [[only]] an [[external]], [[friendly]] [[treatment]]; [[but]] [[amor]] a [[real]], [[internal]] [[love]]): [[amor]], ex quo [[amicitia]] nominata, [[princeps]] est ad benevolentiam conjungendam, Cic. Am. 8, 26: [[nihil]] [[enim]] est, [[quod]] [[studio]] et benevolentiā, vel amore [[potius]] effici non possit, id. Fam. 3, 9; cf. Doed. Syn. IV. p. 105 ([[very]] freq. in all periods, and in [[every]] [[kind]] of [[style]]; in a [[low]] [[sense]] [[most]] freq. in the com. and eleg. poets, Petron., and [[similar]] authors; v. amo init.); constr. [[with]] in, [[erga]], or the obj. gen. ([[with]] the gen. of the gerund, [[never]] in Cic., and perh. in no [[prose]] [[writer]]; [[but]] it is so [[found]] in Lucr., Ovid, and Hor.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ab his initiis [[noster]] in te [[amor]] [[profectus]], Cic. Fam. 13, 29: si [[quid]] in te residet amoris [[erga]] me, id. ib. 5, 5: amori nostro (i. e. quo a te amamur) [[plusculum]] [[etiam]], [[quam]] concedit [[veritas]], largiare, id. ib. 5, 12; Postquam [[primus]] [[amor]] deceptam morte fefellit, Verg. A. 4, 17: [[amabilis]] [[super]] amorem mulierum, Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 26: in paternitatis amore, [[brotherly]] [[love]] (Gr. [[φιλαδελφία]]), ib. 1 Pet. 1, 22; ib. 2 Pet. 1, 7 bis: amplecti aliquem amore, Cic. Att. 7, 1: habere amorem [[erga]] aliquem, id. ib. 9, 14: respondere amori amore, id. ib. 15, 21: conciliare amorem alicui, id. de Or. 2, 51 et saep.—Of [[sexual]] [[love]], [[whether]] [[lawful]] or [[unlawful]]: [[Medea]] amore saevo saucia, Enn. Med. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 22 (as a transl. of the Gr. ἔρωτι θυμὸν ἐκπλαγεῖσ Ἰάσονος, Eur. Med. prol. 8): videbantur [[illi]] ([[septem]] anni) [[pauci]] [[dies]] [[prae]] amoris magnitudine, Vulg. Gen. 29, 20; 29, 30: is amore projecticiam illam deperit, Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43: amore perdita est, id. Mil. 4, 6, 38: in amore haec omnia sunt vitia, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 14: [[aeterno]] devictus volnere amoris, Lucr. 1, 35: qui vitat amorem, id. 4, 1069: Nec te [[noster]] [[amor]] [[tenet]]? Verg. A. 4, 307; 4, 395; Ov. M. 4, 256: ne [[sit]] ancillae [[tibi]] [[amor]] pudori, Hor. C. 2, 4, 1: meretricis amore Sollicitus, id. S. 2, 3, 252: ut majus esset [[odium]] amore, quo [[ante]] dilexerat, Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 15: [[ambo]] vulnerati amore ejus, ib. Dan. 13, 10 al.—In [[both]] significations also in the plur.: amores hominum in te, Cic. Att. 5, 10: amores sancti, id. Fin. 3, 20, 68; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 34, 72: Ille meos, [[primus]] qui me sibi junxit, amores Abstulit, Verg. A. 4, 28: est is mihi in amoribus, i. e. [[valde]] a me amatur, Cic. Fam. 7, 32: meos amores eloquar, Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 2: meretricii amores, Ter. And. 5, 4, 10: quem amore venerio dilexerat, Nep. Paus. 4, 1: amores et hae [[deliciae]], quae vocantur, Cic. Cael. 19: [[quando]] [[Dido]] tantos rumpi non speret amores, Verg. A. 4, 292: Tabuit ex [[illo]] [[dementer]] amoribus usa, Ov. M. 4, 259: insanos fateamur amores, id. ib. 9, 519 et saep.; Hor. C. 3, 21, 3 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> For the [[beloved]] [[object]] itself: amores et [[deliciae]] tuae, Cic. Div. 1, 36; [[Pompeius]], nostri amores, id. Att. 2, 19; 16, 6; and ironic.: sed [[redeo]] ad amores deliciasque [[nostras]], L. Antonium, id. Phil. 6, 5; Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 79; Ov. M. 1, 617; 4, 137 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Personified: Amor, the [[god]] of [[love]], Love, [[Cupid]], Ἔρως: O praeclaram emendatricem vitae poëticam, quae Amorem flagitii et levitatis auctorem in [[concilio]] deorum collocandum putet, Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: Deum esse Amorem [[turpis]] et [[vitio]] favens finxit [[libido]], Sen. Phaedr. 195: Illum conjugem, quem Amor dederat, qui [[plus]] pollet potiorque est patre, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: Omnia vincit Amor, et nos cedamus Amori, Verg. E. 10, 69: Improbe Amor, [[quid]] non mortalia corpora cogis? id. A. 4, 412: Paret Amor dictis carae genetricis, id. ib. 1, 689: Amor non talia curat, id. E. 10, 28: nec [[quid]] Amor curat, Ov. M. 1, 480: Amori [[dare]] ludum, Hor. C. 3, 12, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 8: non tot sagittis, Spicula [[quot]] nostro pectore fixit Amor, id. 3, 4, 2: [[pharetratus]], Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 22: Notaque [[purpureus]] [[tela]] resumit Amor, id. Am. 2, 9, 34: movit Amor gemmatas [[aureus]] [[alas]], id. R. Am. 39 et saep.—Also in the plur., Cupids, Loves: corpora nudorum Amorum, Ov. M. 10, 516: lascivi Amores, Hor. C. 2, 11, 7: parvi Amores, Prop. 3, 1, 11: Amores volucres, Ov. Ep. 16, 201: pharetrati, id. R. Am. 519 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[strong]], [[passionate]] [[longing]] for [[something]], [[desire]], [[lust]]: consulatūs [[amor]], Cic. Sull. 26, 73: gloriae, id. Arch. 11, 28: amicitiae, id. Tusc. 4, 33, 70: [[lactis]], Verg. G. 3, 394: vini, Liv. 9, 18: auri, Verg. A. 1, 349: argenti, Hor. S. 2, 3, 78: nummi, Juv. 14, 138: laudum, Verg. A. 9, 197 et saep.: cognitionis, Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 18.—With gerund: edundi, Lucr. 4, 870: habendi, Ov. M. 1, 131, and Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85: scribendi, id. S. 2, 1, 10.—Poet., [[with]] inf.: si [[tantus]] [[amor]] [[casus]] cognoscere nostros, Verg. A. 2, 10: seu rore pudico Castaliae flavos [[amor]] est [[tibi]] mergere crines, Stat. Th. 1, 698.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Poet., a [[love]]-[[charm]], [[philtre]]: quaeritur et nascentis equi de fronte [[revolsus]] Et matri [[praereptus]] [[amor]], Verg. A. 4, 516; [[upon]] [[which]] [[passage]] Serv. remarks: Secundum Plinium, qui dicit in Naturali Historiā (8, 42, 66, § 163 sqq.) pullos equinos habere in fronte quandam carnem, [[quam]] eis [[statim]] [[natis]] adimit [[mater]]; [[quam]] si [[quis]] [[forte]] praeripuerit, odit pullum et lac ei denegat; v. [[hippomanes]].