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ANTEROS

Volume 3 · 52 words · 1842 Edition

in Mythology, one of the two Cupids who were the chief of the number. They are placed at the foot of the Venus de' Medici. This is represented with a heavy and sullen look, agreeably to the poetical description of him, as the cause of love's ceasing. The other was called Eros.