HermitshCicero Entire

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Cupido

Desire

also: Cupidinis, Desire

The personification of desire, named alongside Pleasure and Venus Lubentina among cult-names consecrated for things 'faulty and not natural.' Cicero treats it as one of the deified passions.

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Mentioned in 86 works (198 mentions)

Aratea (Translation of Aratus' Phaenomena) phil · 1 mention
On Invention rhet · 7 mentions
For Quintus Roscius the Comic Actor speech · 1 mention
For Marcus Tullius speech · 1 mention
Against Caecilius (Divinatio) speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speech · 2 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book III speech · 8 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speech · 3 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speech · 2 mentions
Against Verres, First Hearing speech · 2 mentions
For Aulus Cluentius speech · 5 mentions
Against Catiline, First Speech speech · 1 mention
Against Catiline, Second Speech speech · 1 mention
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech speech · 1 mention
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speech · 1 mention
For the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias speech · 1 mention
For Publius Sulla speech · 5 mentions
Ad Atticum 1.17 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.1 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 letter · 7 mentions
Ad Atticum 2.5 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 letter · 2 mentions
For Lucius Flaccus speech · 1 mention
On His House speech · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 1.1 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.2 letter · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.4 letter · 1 mention
On the Consular Provinces speech · 2 mentions
Against Vatinius speech · 4 mentions
For Marcus Caelius speech · 6 mentions
For Publius Sestius speech · 5 mentions
On the Orator rhet · 9 mentions
Against Piso speech · 10 mentions
Ad Familiares 5.8 letter · 1 mention
On the Commonwealth phil · 3 mentions
The Subdivisions of Oratory rhet · 7 mentions
For Gnaeus Plancius speech · 2 mentions
For Gaius Rabirius Postumus speech · 1 mention
On the Laws phil · 6 mentions
For Titus Annius Milo speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.13 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.2 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 3.9 letter · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 3.10 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 9.11 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 5.20 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.21 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 4.14 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 5.21 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 6.10 letter · 1 mention
Brutus rhet · 4 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 2 mentions
Stoic Paradoxes phil · 5 mentions
For Quintus Ligarius speech · 1 mention
Academica phil · 4 mentions
Ad Atticum 12.31 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 12.43 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 13.26 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 13.31 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 9.11 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 13.15 letter · 1 mention
On the Ends of Good and Evil phil · 8 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods phil · 1 mention
Timaeus (Latin translation) phil · 1 mention
Tusculan Disputations phil · 4 mentions
Ad Atticum 15.3 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 15.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.28 letter · 1 mention
On Duties phil · 8 mentions
Laelius, On Friendship phil · 2 mentions
First Philippic speech · 1 mention
Third Philippic speech · 1 mention
Topics: To Gaius Trebatius rhet · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.11 letter · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.15 letter · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.16 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 10.8 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 12.13 letter · 1 mention
Tenth Philippic speech · 2 mentions
Eleventh Philippic speech · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speech · 1 mention
Seventh Philippic speech · 4 mentions
Eighth Philippic speech · 1 mention

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