A Problem in Greek Ethics / Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists

by John Addington Symonds

[28] Cap. xxiii. p. 768, 53. Compare Max. Tyr., Dissert., xxiv. 1. See too the chapter on Tyrannicide in Ar. Pol., viii. (v.) 10.

[29] Clough's trans., vol. v. p. 118.

[30] Hellenics, bk. ix. cap. xxvi.

[31] Suidas, under the heading Paidika, tells of two lovers who both died in battle, fighting each to save the other.

[32] See, for example, Æschines against Timarchus, 59.

[33] Trans. by Sir G. C. Lewis, vol. ii. pp. 309-313.

[34] Symp. 182 A.

[35] i. 132.

[36] De Rep., iv. 4.

[37] I need hardly point out the parallel between this custom and the marriage customs of half-civilised communities.