"It is a disease in which the patient has erection of the genital organ....It is an unrestrainable impulse to connection; but neither are they at all relieved by those embraces, nor is the tentigo soothed by many and repeated acts of sexual intercourse. Spasms of all the nerves, and tension of all the tendons, groins, and perineum, inflammation and pain in the genital parts." This constant state is punctuated by attacks. The patients then lose "all restraint of tongue as regards obscenity, and likewise all restraint in regard to the open performance of the act...; they vomit much phlegm. Afterwards, froth settles on their lips, as is the case with goats in the season of rutting, and the smell likewise is similar."
---Arataeus, quoted by Foucault in Vol. 3
In Greece the problematization of sexuality revolved around the question of the man's capacity for self-rule, indicating his relative capacity to rule others. In Rome, the focus shifted more to self-care; sexuality was viewed more in physiological-medical terms, and as an area where disease could be contracted.