Note 127 — THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK FIVE.114 Of Love, or "Eros."
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie translation
Plotinos thus derives "eros" from "orasis," which, however far-fetched a derivation, is less so than that of Plato, from "esros," meaning to "flow into," Cratylos, p. 420, Cary, 79, 80.