Cupido
Known to the Greeks as Eros.
God of love, son of Jupiter and Venus, is represented as a winged boy, naked, armed with a bow and arrows. On gems and ornaments he is represented generally as amusing himself with some childish diversion. Cupid, like the rest of the gods, assumed different shapes, and we find him in the Aeneid putting on, at the request of his mother, the form of Ascanius, and going to Dido's court, where he inspired the queen with love.
Curtius, M. A Roman who devoted himself to the service of his country, about B. c. 360, by leaping, on horseback and fully armed, into a huge gap in the earth at the command of the oracle. Curtius Rufus, Q. The Roman historian of Alexander the Great, whose date is uncertain. His history of Alexander consisted of ten books, but the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are not without considerable gaps. It is written in a pleasing though somewhat declamatory style.