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Timokles
Hp. Aph. 4.54. To the best of my knowledge, this is the earliest surviving passage
where sexual desire is described in this verb; it mostly occurs in this sense in later
literature; cf. Ach. Tat. 5.25.7; Ath. 13.560d ήσθε'ις ούν ό Καμβύσης τή Νειτήτιδι
και σφόδρα έρεθισθεις... “Cambyses, being much pleased and very violently
in love with Nitetis...”; [Luc.] Amor. 37; Aristaenet. 1.27 έτερα δε τοϋ σώματος
έγύμνωσε μέρη τά δυνατά, δπως άν πολλαχόθεν τό μειράκιον έρεθίση “and she
bared other parts of her body, in order to excite the boy in many ways”; 2.13; Nonn.
D. 15.219-20; AP 1.105.2 (figurative) ύπ εύσεβοΰς έρωτος ήρεθισμένη.
Timokles
Hp. Aph. 4.54. To the best of my knowledge, this is the earliest surviving passage
where sexual desire is described in this verb; it mostly occurs in this sense in later
literature; cf. Ach. Tat. 5.25.7; Ath. 13.560d ήσθε'ις ούν ό Καμβύσης τή Νειτήτιδι
και σφόδρα έρεθισθεις... “Cambyses, being much pleased and very violently
in love with Nitetis...”; [Luc.] Amor. 37; Aristaenet. 1.27 έτερα δε τοϋ σώματος
έγύμνωσε μέρη τά δυνατά, δπως άν πολλαχόθεν τό μειράκιον έρεθίση “and she
bared other parts of her body, in order to excite the boy in many ways”; 2.13; Nonn.
D. 15.219-20; AP 1.105.2 (figurative) ύπ εύσεβοΰς έρωτος ήρεθισμένη.