ERODED

(Lat. erodo, 1 gnaic.) In Zoology, when a part has its edges irregularly jagged, as if gnawed or eaten. EROTIC (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.), is an epithet applied generally to all that relates to the pa ion of love. Thus whatever excites that pa ion, or depicts its effects, is termed erotic. In a more confined sense, this application has been conferred on a certain cla of Greek and Latin authors, both in prose and poetry, of whose writings love formed the principal theme. Of these the most distinguished are Achilles Tatius, Heliodor us, A nacre on, Sappho, Ovid, Tibuilus, Pro pert i us, . (See the learned work entitled Script ores Erotic i GrcBci, cur a Mils cher lichi i.) [s. 432]