AphroditeVenusFrigida. Terence, in a famous quotation, said, “Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus” (“Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes,” that is, “Without food and drink, love grows cold”). The “frigid” Venus theme became a popular allegory for painters, especially in the Low Countries, France, and Germany of the seventeenth century. Classical Source. Terence, Eunuch 732.