erotes

They treat of the definitions of love and the gradations of the powers of love (erotes) and their reduction to the one supreme principle of love.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Now I kiss you, and will begin a new thinking of you ” and end, and begin, going round and round in my circle of discovery, ” My lotos-blossom! because they loved the lotos, were lotos-lovers, ” [Greek: lotou t 'erotes], as Euripides writes in the

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898