Semele perished amidst the fires of her lover. […]  5. — Cupid was the god of love. […] He has wings, because favour is deceitful and love is precarious. […] His love of justice inspired the poets to place him also among the judges of hell. […] He attempted to make love to Juno; but Jupiter sent a cloud in the likeness of Juno to the place where Ixion had agreed to meet her, and the deceived lover embraced the cloud, from which the centaurs were produced.