Juvenal (b.60 AD), the famous Roman satirist, gives a vivid account of such an orgiastic impulse: "The flute excites the thighs, and the women, influenced by wine and the blare of trumpets, are beside themselves with desire. They wail and howl and twist their hair.
What an unquenchable desire for an embrace is unleashed! What lunging desire! Irritation heightens their impatience! Such are these women in their moment of truth. A shout goes up and reverberates throughout the chamber: 'Let the men come in unto us!'"
