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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![punished by loss of civil rights, exile or death ', and it was the same at Athens, as Meier (loco citato) pp. 167 sqq.) has sufficiently proved. The fact that the laws relating to this offence were promulgated at Athens only after the time of Solon shows that paederastia, as well as brothels, did not come into use there till about that time. True Athens in later times was quite as notorious for the prevalence there of paederastia as Corinth was 9 for its Gay Women ?; (of unnatural viciousness). In the Anthologia Graeca, bk. II. tit. 5. No. 10. is the distich following by an unknown author: Tids IIaroıniov pcan xde- wos, Os Ora Köngıv Ody dolyv Erdoovg ndv- Tag GHOGTOEMETHE. (Son of Patricius, a very discreet man, who by uxholy love seduccs all his comrades). But above all the passage in Aeschines, Orat. in Timarch. edit. Reiske, p. 146., is to the point in this connection: derfouae 6° sive, tO pe Zodv tov schdy nab caged- var, giuiavtedarov, xratos zal Edyvapovos >Wvyiis To O& Koshyaivery Koy velov TEVE utotovusvory, bPerotod zul axadettcv cvteos Eoyov sivor Tyoouaı ack tO wen KdrapPooms Eodotar, mri nadoy sive’ To 08 Exaotéevta wot mexooverdotor, aicz- odv. (Now I make this distinction, that to love honour- able and prudent friends is the passion of an amiable and reasonable soul; whereas to behave licentiously, hiring anyone for the purpose, 1 consider the act of a rufhlanly and uncultivated man. Simil- arly, to be loved purely, I declare to be a noble thing; but, induced by pay, to allow oneself to be debauched, a foul thing), Anyone who has read this passage attentively, together with what follows in the Speech, cannot possibly any longer confound Paedo- philia with Paederastia, or maintain that the latter was approved by the Greeks. 1 4elian, Var. Hist., IH. 12. — Xenophon, De republ. Lacedaem, II. 13., Sympos., VIII. 35. Plato, De leg., VIII B52. ? Lucian, Amores, 41., Mnöiv aytecPis, ei Teig Adrivams 7 Kogivtog sige, (Do not be annoyed, if Corinth yields to Athens), on which the scholiasts add the ex- planation: 7] og tig Kogly Pov wey evenemeyns Apeodiry (dtd nad oA Ev Koolvta 7, yvvaınsla wlEıg) Adnvav 02 aawdsouotia xoportav TOL TH natcd prdocogiar](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31364433_0001_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
