Note 269 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Ἔρωτι. Venus confesses that she has little power without the aid of her favourite son Cupid:
Æneid. L. i. 668.
Nate, meæ vires, mea magna potentia, &c. Ad te confugio, et supplex tua numina posco.
She is accompanied by him and Ἵμερος (whom the Grecian mythologists seem to have distinguished from Ἔρως) in the Theogony of Hesiod.
D. G. vs. 201.
τῇ δ’ Ἔρος ὡμάρτησε, καὶ Ἵμερος ἕσπετο καλός.
The Odes of Anacreon afford many graphic sketches of the mischievous little god:
Od. iii. vs. 17.
φέροντα τόξον, πτέρυγάς τε καὶ φαρέτρην.