Volume 1
The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A.
- Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the “Constrictor cunni” in strength. So it is by no means improbable that the Apostle Paul is accurate when he says!: “Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves; /or their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness.” In Asia natural copulation formed a part of the Temple service of Venus, and in course of time Paederastia as well was joined with it, as is seen from the following passage of St. Athanasius *: by Cratinus = sodomitish and womanish men). Strato in Antholog. MS.: Zgpıyarno obn Eorıv wage aaotévea, ob0& planue Anhody, ob vent] yowrtos eurvoin. (With a virgin there is no sphincter, no frank kiss, no natural fragrance of the skin). Hesychius sub verbo : ueyoginal oplyyes’ Keadiias nogvag tıv&g ovtasS elonxew. (Hesychius (Lexicon) on the phrase weyaounal olyyes says: Callias speaks of certain harlots by this title). Suidas sub verbo: weyaoınal Oplyyes. ai mwéevat ovtwc Eionvraı, isas O& Evrsüd'ev nal opiyx- ToL OL wahaxol avoucodnoay’ 7 nal co Meatag ovta Aeyowtvns ev Meydooıg' AAN Eorıw julv Meyagını) Tis ungevi). cyt Tod, movnon’ dıeßa)- hovto yao Ent movneia oi Meyaosig. (Suidas (Lexicon) on the phrase usyapınal oiyyss says: harlots are so called, and perhaps for the same reason debauched men are entitled cpiyurar; or else from a saying current in Megara to this effect:—But we haye a certain Megarzan trick,—that is a knavish one. For the Magarians were il! spoken of tor their knavishness). * Epistle to the Romans, ch. I. vv. 24—26, 27. ? Athanasius, Oratio contra Gentes, ch. 26. in “Opera Omnia studio Monachorum Ord. St. Benedicti.” (Complete Works of St. Athanasius. edit. by the Monks of the Order of St. Benedict). Padua 1777. folio.—Vol. I. p. 1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31364433_0001_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
