[8] Max. Tyr., Dissert., ix.
[9] See Sismondi, vol. ii. p. 324, Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, Age of the Despots, p. 435; Tardieu, Attentats aux Mœurs, Les Ordures de Paris; Sir R. Burton's Terminal Essay to the "Arabian Nights;" Carlier, Les Deux Prostitutions, etc.
[10] I say almost, because something of the same sort appeared in Persia at the time of Saadi.
[11] Plato, in the Phædrus, the Symposium, and the Laws, is decisive on the mixed nature of paiderastia.
[12] Theocr., Paidika, probably an Æolic poem of much older date.
[13] Phædrus, p. 252, Jowett's translation.
[14] Page 178, Jowett.
[15] Clough, vol. ii. p. 218.
[16] Book vii. 4, 7.
[17] We may compare a passage from the Symposium ascribed to Xenophon, viii. 32.