See ἔρως in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Sophocles, Antigone 781\nἜρως ἀνίκατε μάχαν\nÉrōs aníkate mákhan\nO Love unconquered in battle",
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"english": "(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\"",
"ref": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Coniugalia praecepta §138f",
"roman": "...hoútō tòn apò sṓmatos kaì hṓras oxùn érōta tôn neogámōn anaphlegómenon deî mḕ diarkê mēdè bébaion nomízein, àn mḕ perì tò êthos idrutheìs kaì toû phronoûntos hapsámenos émpsukhon lábēi diáthesin.",
"text": "...οὕτω τὸν ἀπὸ σώματος καὶ ὥρας ὀξὺν ἔρωτα τῶν νεογάμων ἀναφλεγόμενον δεῖ μὴ διαρκῆ μηδὲ βέβαιον νομίζειν, ἂν μὴ περὶ τὸ ἦθος ἰδρυθεὶς καὶ τοῦ φρονοῦντος ἁψάμενος ἔμψυχον λάβῃ διάθεσιν.\n(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\""
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"passionate joy"
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"a funeral wreath at Nicaea"
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"ipa": "/é.rɔːs/"
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
},
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"ipa": "/é.rɔːs/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"genitive",
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"dual",
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"form": "τὼ ἔρωτε",
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"dual"
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"form": "τοὺς ἔρωτᾰς",
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"text": "Sophocles, Antigone 781\nἜρως ἀνίκατε μάχαν\nÉrōs aníkate mákhan\nO Love unconquered in battle",
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"english": "(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\"",
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"text": "...οὕτω τὸν ἀπὸ σώματος καὶ ὥρας ὀξὺν ἔρωτα τῶν νεογάμων ἀναφλεγόμενον δεῖ μὴ διαρκῆ μηδὲ βέβαιον νομίζειν, ἂν μὴ περὶ τὸ ἦθος ἰδρυθεὶς καὶ τοῦ φρονοῦντος ἁψάμενος ἔμψυχον λάβῃ διάθεσιν.\n(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\""
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"desire",
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"passionate joy"
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"joy",
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"a funeral wreath at Nicaea"
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"funeral",
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[
"wreath",
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[
"Nicaea",
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"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
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},
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
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"ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
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