: 「私達はアフロディーテと話をする必要があります。私たちは一緒に行って、もし可能なら、彼女の少年[エロス]を説得し、アイーテスの娘、多くの呪文のメデアに矢を放ち、彼女がジェイソンと恋に落ちるようにしましょう......。」(アルゴナウティカ<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3. 25 ff – a Greek epic of the 3rd century BCE</ref>)
* 「彼(エロス)は未知の熱で乙女の胸を打ち、まさに神々が天を離れ、借り物の姿で地上に住まうことを命じたのです。」(パエドラref>Seneca, Phaedra, 290 ff</ref>)
* “He [Eros] smites maids’ breasts with unknown heat, and bids the very gods leave heaven and dwell on earth in borrowed forms.” (''[[Phaedra (Seneca)|Phaedra]]'')<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]] |title=[[Phaedra (Seneca)|Phaedra]] |at=290 ff}}</ref>
* “Once, when Venus’ son [Eros] was kissing her, his quiver dangling down, a jutting arrow, unbeknown, had grazed her breast. She pushed the boy away. In fact the wound was deeper than it seemed, though unperceived at first. [And she became] enraptured by the beauty of a man [<nowiki/>[[Adonis]]<nowiki/>].” (''[[Metamorphoses]]'')<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Ovid]] |title=[[Metamorphoses]] |at=10. 525 ff}}</ref>