ἔνθεν δὴ στοματουργὸς ἐπῶν
βασινίστρια λίσπη
γλῶσσ’....
(So thence a phrase-making word-sifting, smooth tongue ...)
[16] Comp. p. 172 above. Lucian, Pseudolog. ch. 31., calls it παροινῶν (acting drunkenly). Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XIII. ch. 80., φιλόπαις δ’ἦν ἐκμανῶς καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὁ βασιλεύς. (And he was a lover of boys, to an insane degree, was Alexander the King). Dio Chrysostom, Tarsica I. p. 409., says of the ῤέγχειν (snorting of the Cinaedi): ἀλλ’ ἐστὶ σημεῖον τῆς αἰσχάτης ὕβρεως καὶ ἀπονοίας (but it is a sign of the most abandoned insolence and infatuation), and again p. 412.: ὡς ἤδη μανία τὸ γιγνόμενον ἔοικεν αἰσχρᾷ καὶ ἀπρέπει (so now the resulting condition resembles madness, disgraceful and unseemly madness). Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. bk. III. ch. 8., περὶ τὰ παιδικὰ ἐκμανῶς ἐπτοημένοι (men set upon enjoyments with boys insanely). But above all is the following passage from Juvenal (Sat. VI. 299) apposite in this connection:
... Quid enim Venus ebria curat?
Inguinis et capitis quae sint discrimina nescit.
(For of what does drunken love take heed? What are the differences betwixt groin and head, she ignores). Seneca, De ira II.: Raptus ad stupra et ne os quidem libidini exceptum. (Carried away into obscenities and not even the mouth held secure from lust). Lactantius, VI. 23., Quorum teterrima libido et execrabilis furor ne capiti quidem parcit. (Whose most foul lust and abominable frenzy spares not even the head).
[17] Xenophon, Cyropaed. II. 2. 28. Hence too Cicero, Tuscul. V. 20., Haberet etiam more Graeciae quosdam adolescentes amore coniunctos (he would keep also, after the fashion of Greece, sundry young men bound to him in ties of affection); of course it is a question here of Paedophilia merely, but we have seen how readily this was confounded with Paederastia. Aristophanes, Eccles. 918.,
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