Cupído, pe. pro. huius cupidinis, f. g. Destre: couetousnes: lust.Nouissima etiam gloriæ cupido sapientibus exuitur.Tacit.Cupido habendi. Plin. Couerousnes.Laudis titulíque cupido. luuen. Mortis cupido.Ouid.Potentiæ cupido insita mortalibus. Tac. Desire of power is naturally grassed in men.Ventris cupido.Ouid. Altior cupido adeundi sacram sedem. Tac. Laudum ariecta cupido.Virg.Honorum cæca cupido. Lucr. Blinde desire of honour.Cæca præde cupido.Ouid.Dira cupido.Virg.Fœda vitæ cupido.Stat.Opum furiosa cupido.Ouid.Outragious desire of mony.Ieiuna cupido. Lucr. Hunger: desire to eate.Immensa.Virg. Improba. Sen. Intempestiua. Ouid.Leuis & festina. Val. Plac. Misera. Hor. Mutua. Lucr. Turpis. Virg. Laudis cupidine acceusus.Stat.Inflamed with desire of praise.Adoleuit cupido potentiæ. Tac. Coniux capta cupidine.Virg.Romulum cupido cœpit vrbis condendæ. Li. Romulus was desirons to build a citie.Corripi cupidine.Ouid. Disserri. Plaut.Flagrare.Ouid.To haue exceeding great lust and desire.Incessit eum cupido. Tac. Intrauit animum militaris gloriæ cupido. Tac. Inuadit Cæsarem cupido soluendi suprema militibus. Taci. Cæsar conceiued a great desire.Inuolat animos cupido eundi in hostem. Tac. They sodenly conceined a vehement desire, &c.Languescit cupido.Plin. iun.Their lust decaieth.Ludor nimia cupidine.Ouid. Succensa cupido. Ouid.Tactus cupidine laudis.Ouid. Cupido pro Cupiditate, etiam masculino genere profertur. Hor. Cupido sordidus. Filthy couetousnes.Auri cæcus cupido. Sen.
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cŭpīdo (cūpēdo or cuppēdo, Lucr. 1, 1082; 4, 1090; 5, 45), ĭnis, f. (m., Plant. Am. 2, 2, 210; Hor. C. 2, 16, 15; 3, 16, 39; 3, 24, 51; id. S. 1, 1, 61; id. Ep. 1, 1, 33; Ov. M. 8, 74; 9, 734; Sil. 4, 99; and personified in all authors; v. the foll.) [cupidus], access. form of cupiditas, desire, wish, longing, eagerness, in a good and (more usu.) in a bad sense (very freq. in the poets and histt., esp. in Sall.; twice in Quint., but in Cic. only as personified). I. In gen. A. In a good sense: cupido cepit miseram nunc me proloqui, etc. (transl. from Eurip. Med. 57: i(/meros m) u(ph=lqe, etc.), Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63 (Trag. Rel. v. 291 Vahl.); cf.: Romulum cupido cepit urbis condendae, Liv. 1, 6, 3: cupido eum ceperat in verticem montis ascendendi, id. 40, 21, 2; and with inf.: cupido incessit Aethiopiam invisere, Curt. 4, 8, 3: aquae, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 50; cf.: laticum frugumque, Lucr. 4, 1093: gloriae, Sall. C. 7, 3: aeternitatis perpetuaeque famae, Suet. Ner. 55: lucis, Quint. 6, prooem. 13: placendi, id. 10, 7, 17 al.— 2.Trop., of things: res medii cuppedine victae,
overcome by their tendency to a centre
, Lucr. 1, 1082.—B. In a bad sense, desire, passion, lust, greed. (a). With gen.: honorum caeca (with avarities), Lucr. 3, 59; cf. honoris, Sall. C. 3, 5: mala vitaï, Lucr. 3, 1077: immitis uvae (i. e. virginis immaturae), Hor. C. 2, 5, 9: praedae caeca, Ov. M. 3, 620: intempestiva concubitūs, id. ib. 10, 689; cf. Veneris, id. ib. 14, 634 et saep.: difficilia faciundi, Sall. J. 93, 3: ejus (oppidi) potiundi, id. ib. 89, 6: quarum (rerum) inmodica cupido inter mortales est, Liv. 6, 35, 6: populos ad cupidinem novae fortunae erigere, id. 21, 19, 7.—In plur.: malae dominationis cupidinibus flagrans, Tac. A. 13, 2.—(b).Absol.: homines cupidine caeci, Lucr. 4, 1153; so id. 4, 1090: cuppedinis acres curae, id. 5, 45; Hor. C. 2, 16, 15 et saep.: femineus, Ov. M. 9, 734; cf. muliebris, Tac. A. 4, 39.—In plur., Hor. S. 1, 2, 111; 2, 7, 85; Tac. A. 3, 52: eo provectas Romanorum cupidines, ut non corpora, ne senectam quidam aut virginitatem inpollutam relinquant, id. ib. 14, 35.—II. In partic. A.The desire that springs from love, desire, love: differor Cupidine ejus, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 29; cf.: visae virginis, Ov. M. 13, 906; Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 210; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 68. —In plur.: me, Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus, Prop. 1, 1, 2.—Hence, 2. Personified: Cŭpīdo, ĭnis, m., the god of love, Cupid, son of Venus, Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 58 sq.; Prop. 2, 14, 5 (3, 18, 21); Ov. M. 1, 453; 5, 366 et saep.; Hor. C. 1, 2, 34; 2, 8, 14 al.; in the form CVPEDO, Inscr. Orell. 1367.—In plur.: mater saeva Cupidinum, Hor. C. 1, 19, 1 Orell. ad loc.; 4, 1, 5 al.; cf. of sculptured figures: exstant caelati scyphi ... Myos in eādem aede Silenos et Cupidines, Plin. 33, 12, 55, 155; 36, 5, 4, 41. —Hence, (b). Cŭpīdĭnĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Cupid (poet.): tela, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 65: sagittae, id. R. Am. 157.—Transf., lovely, charming ( = formosus), Mart. 7, 87, 9.— B. In animals, the sexual impulse: equina, Col. 6, 27, 3: equi cupidine sollicitati, id. 6, 27, 8.—C. (Cf. cupidus, II. A. 2., and cupiditas, II. B. 1.) Avarice, covetousness: Narcissum incusat cupidinis ac praedarum, Tac. A. 12, 57; in plur., id. H. 1, 66.— 2. Personified: Cupido sordidus,