[98] Line 137. The joke here is that the father in Utopia suggests, of his own accord, what in Athens he carefully guarded against.
[99] Page 222, Jowett's trans.
[100] Clouds, 948 and on. I have abridged the original, doing violence to one of the most beautiful pieces of Greek poetry.
[101] Aristophanes returns to this point below, line 1,036, where he says that youths chatter all day in the hot baths and leave the wrestling-grounds empty.
[102] There was a good reason for shunning each. The Agora was the meeting-place of idle gossips, the centre of chaff and scandal. The shops were, as we shall see, the resort of bad characters and panders.
[103] Line 1,071, et seq.
[104] Caps. 44, 45, 46. The quotation is only an abstract of the original.
[105] Worn up to the age of about eighteen.
[106] Compare with the passages just quoted two epigrams from the Mousa Paidiké (Greek Anthology, sect. 12): No. 123, from a lover to a lad who has conquered in a boxing-match; No. 192, where Straton says he prefers the dust and oil of the wrestling-ground to the curls and perfumes of a woman's room.
[107] Page 255 B.