This identification is likely prompted by the erotes and cupids, the oft-winged boys that personified amorousness in the Greco-Roman art of R. Abbahu’s time. This conclusion can also explain the existence of several peculiar talmudic homilies attributing an erotic aspect to the cherubim of the...
[A] Thecuriously carved mirror that Lord Henry bad given to him, so many years agonow, was standing on the table, and the white-limbed Cupids laughed round it asof old. He took it up, as he had done on that night of horror when he had firstnoted line change in the fatal picture,...