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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2017-01-31 02:08 pm

TIL

It turns out that in the Aeneid Love is a male god:
“So Venus makes an appeal to Love, her winged son:
“You, my son, are my strength, my greatest power—
you alone, my son, can scoff at the lightning bolts
the high and mighty Father hurled against Typhoeus.
Help me, I beg you. I need all your immortal force.”

Virgil (translated by Robert Fagles). “The Aeneid.”
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[personal profile] juan_gandhi 2017-01-31 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Амур же. Если не река и не рыба, то явно сыночек. И в романских языках это слово мужского рода. (В отличие от немецкого, например, и некоторых славянских.)
Edited 2017-01-31 23:09 (UTC)