Cupid
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Cupid
1. the Roman god of love, represented as a winged boy with a bow and arrow
2. any similar figure, esp as represented in Baroque art
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Cupid
disguised as Ascanius, son of Aeneas. [Gk. Myth.: Aeneid]
See: Disguise
Cupid
(Gk. Eros) god of love. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 70]
See: Love
Cupid
while sleeping, revealed by Psyche’s lamp as her lover. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 822]
See: Sleep
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
CUPID
A graphic query language.
["CUPID: A Graphic Oriented Facility for Support of Nonprogrammer Interactions with a Database", N. McDonald, PhD Thesis, CS Dept, UC Berkeley 1975].
["CUPID: A Graphic Oriented Facility for Support of Nonprogrammer Interactions with a Database", N. McDonald, PhD Thesis, CS Dept, UC Berkeley 1975].
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Cupid
also Amor, in ancient Roman mythology, the deity of love, the personification of amorous passion. Cupid corresponds to the Greek god Eros. In art, beginning in the Hellenist epoch, cupids have been depicted as playful little boys.
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