Love (God of)

(Anglo-Saxon luf.)

Camʹdeo, in Hindu mythology.

Camadeʹva, in Persian mythology.

Cupid, in Roman mythology.

Eros, in Greek mythology.

Freya, in Celtic mythology.

Kama or Cama, in Indian mythology. (See Bowyer, etc., etc.)

¶ The family of love. Certain fanatics in the sixteenth century, holding tenets not unlike those of the Anabaptists.

There is no love lost. Because the persons referred to have no love for each other. What does not exist cannot be lost.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.