Cupid in Daphnis and Chloe

One of my favorite parts of the story Daphnis and Chloe was how Cupid was described because it encompassed the characteristics of love.  When Philetas is trying to capture Cupid in his garden for "just one kiss" Cupid "Laughed very loudly in response and let out a sound sweeter than any swallow's or any nightingale's or any swan's. . . . [and says] I'm difficult to hunt, and swifter than hawks or doves or any bird faster than them.  I am not a boy even though I seem to be one, but am older than Cronus and all time itself" (157).  In this section of the story we see that Cupid's very characteristics are the characteristics of love itself.  I like this union between an entity (Cupid) and an abstract emotion.