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[178b] “Of the most venerable are the honors of this god, and the proof of it is this: parents of Love there are none, nor are any recorded in either prose or verse. Hesiod says that Chaos came first into being—“and thereafter rose
Broad-breasted Earth, sure seat of all for aye,
And Love.
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Acusilaus2 also agrees with Hesiod, saying that after Chaos were born these two, Earth and Love. Parmenides says of Birth that she “invented Love before all other gods.
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1 Hes. Theog. 116

2 An Argive compiler of genealogies in the first part of the fifth century B.C.

3 Parmenides fr. 132

4 Cf. Aristot. Met. 1.984b.

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