on her, and holding up her train) are infinite almost, and vary their names with their objects, as love of money, covetousness, love of beauty, lust, immoderate desire of any pleasure, concupiscence, friendship, love, goodwill, &c. and is either virtue or vice, honest, dishonest, in excess, defect, as shall be showed in his place.  Heroical love, religious love, &c. which may be reduced to a twofold division, according to the principal parts which are affected, the brain and liver. Amor et amicitia, which Scaliger exercitat. 301. Valesius and Melancthon warrant out of Plato [Greek:  philein] and [Greek:  eran] from that speech of Pausanias belike, that makes two Veneres and two loves. [4481]"One Venus is ancient without a mother, and descended from heaven, whom we call celestial; the younger, begotten of Jupiter and Dione, whom commonly we call Venus.”  Ficinus, in his comment upon this place, cap. 8. following Plato, calls these two loves, two devils, [4482]or good and bad angels according to us, which are still hovering about our souls. [4483]"The one rears to heaven, the other depresseth us to hell; the one good, which stirs us up to the contemplation of that divine beauty for whose sake we perform justice and all godly offices, study philosophy, &c.; the other base, and though bad yet to be respected; for indeed both are good in their own natures:  procreation of children is as necessary as that finding out of truth, but therefore called bad, because it is abused, and withdraws our souls from the speculation of that other to viler objects,” so far Ficinus.  S. Austin, lib. 15. de civ.  Dei et sup.  Psal. lxiv., hath delivered as much in effect. [4484]"Every creature is good, and may be loved well or ill:”  and [4485]"Two cities make two loves, Jerusalem and Babylon, the love of God the one, the love of the world the other; of these two cities we all are citizens, as by examination of ourselves we may soon find, and of which.”  The one love is the root of all mischief, the other of all good.  So, in his 15. cap. lib. de amor.  Ecclesiae, he will have those four cardinal virtues to be nought else but love rightly composed; in his 15. book de civ.  Dei, cap. 22. he calls virtue the order of love, whom Thomas following 1. part. 2. quaest. 55. art. 1. and quaest. 56. 3. quaest. 62. art. 2. confirms as much, and amplifies in many words. [4486]Lucian, to the same purpose, hath a division of his own, “One love was born in the sea, which is as various and raging in young men’s breasts as the sea itself, and causeth burning lust:  the other is that golden chain which was let down from heaven, and with a divine fury ravisheth our souls, made to the image of God, and stirs us up to comprehend the innate and incorruptible beauty to which we were once created.”  Beroaldus hath expressed all this in an epigram of his: 

       “Dogmata divini memorant si vera Platonis,
          Sunt geminae Veneres, et geminatus amor. 
        Coelestis Venus est nullo generata parente,
          Quae casto sanctos nectit amore viros. 
        Altera sed Venus est totum vulgata per orbem,
          Quae divum mentes alligat, atque hominum;”