Erotes
"Loves." The Erotes are, in late Classical art, boy-like gods of love, in Latin known as the Amoretti. They belong to the retinue of Aphrodite/Venus. They appeared frequently in art during the Renaissance and remained popular through the baroque and rococo periods (as putti or genii). See Eros, Anteros, Himeros, and Pothos.
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The collective term erotes is the plural of eros, "desire".
References
Source
- Lurker, Manfred. (2004). Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Demons. London: Routledge.