[246] Clouds, vv. 973 sqq.—see also F. A. Wolf’s German translation.
[247] Lysias, Contra Pancl., 731., from which passage it would seem that each “Deme” had its own κουρεῖον (barber’s shop) in the city. Demosthenes, Contra Aristogit., 786, 7. Theophrastus, Charact., VIII. 5. XI. Plutarch, Sympos., V. 5. Aristophanes, Plut., 339.
[248] Aristophanes, Knights, 1380., where the expression τὰ μειράκια τἀν τῷ μύρῳ (the striplings, those in the myrrh-market) is intentionally ambiguous.
[249] Aelian, Var. Hist., VIII. 8. Aeschines, In Timarch., § 40. says that Timarchus resided at the Surgery of Euthydicus, not to learn medicine, but to sell his person.
[250] Theophrastus, Charact., V. edit. Ast, p. 183.
[251] Theophrastus, Charact., VIII. 4.
[252] Xenophon, Memorab., IV. 2. 1. Diogenes Laertius, III. 21.
[253] Aeschines, In Timarch., p. 35., τὰς ἐρημίας καὶ τὸ σκότος ἐν πλείστῃ ὑποψίᾳ ποιούμενος. (regarding the lonely localities and the darkness as in the highest degree suspicious). p. 112. p. 90., ἡ πρᾶξις αὕτη εἴωθε γίγνεσθαι λάθρα καὶ ἐν ἐρημίαις. (this practice is usually carried on secretly and in lonely places). p. 104, it is said that Timarchus had more experience περὶ τῆς ἐρημίας ταύτης καὶ τοῦ τόπου ἐν τῇ Πνυκὶ. (about this lonely spot and the locality of the Pnyx) than of the Areopagus. Comp. Plato, Sympos., p. 217 b.
[254] Plato, Sympos. p. 182. 6. Xenophon, Sympos. VIII. 34.—Cicero, De Republ., IV. 4., Apud Eleos et Thebanos in amore ingenuorum libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam. (Among the Eleans and Thebans, in the love of free men, lust has actually a permitted and unchecked licence). Maximus Tyrius, Diss. XXXIX. p. 467. Plutarch, De pueror. educat., ch. 14. The Elean “boy-loving” was even more notorious than the Boeotian. Xenophon, De Republ. Lacedaem., II. 13. Maximus Tyrius, Diss., XXVI. p. 317.
[255] Theognis, Sentent., 39.