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
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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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    maiden burns for a maiden. Hardly keeping back her tears she cries: What fate awaits me,—me who suffer sorrow of Venus known to none, a sorrow monstrous and of strange new sort? If the gods were willing to spare me, they would have given me a natural curse surely, one of ordinary kind. No cow burns for a cow, no mare for the love of mares, nor any woman is taken with love for a woman. Would I were no woman!) Similarly Zucellius says of the paederast Cratippus in the Greek Anthology, bk. TE, it. Vee LT: Tov gıloraıda Kodrınnov anovonts Fatwa yoo duty Kawov dnayyehko wany weyakaı VEWECELS Tov prroxaida Kodrinnorv é&vetooner Ghio yévos Ti; Tov ErsooßnAmv jamin toir dv Eyo; Hımıca Toöro, Kodrnme; uavnooucı, si Avnog sive Il&oı ey ov Epavng EEani- vns Egipos. (Of the boy-loving Cratippus will I tell you; for a strange new wonder I report. Yea/ great are the penalties he pays. The boy-loving Crat- ippus we have found has another character. What cha- racter? I should have thought him to be of those whose Jove is eager on one side only. Did I think so, Cratippus? Well, I shall seem a madman, if—professing the while to all to be a wolf,—you of a sudden appear in the character of a kid), But most important in this connection is the passage of Aeschines, Orat. in Timarch., p- , 178, [07] Xe olsodaı, @ “Adnveior, TAS THY Arvuyn- pcrceay Koges ano Sear, GAR oby bn dvd oarov doshyslag yivsodaı, pnd? tovs Hospyxdtas, zataweg inl tais teayadta Lot, Iloırüs shavvery nal moda cery daoly Tepe voces” GA ai mgonersic tod cauarog Novel, nal td und&v inavbv Nyelodaı. (For you must not dream, Athen- ians, that the causes of cala- mities are from the gods, and that such are not rather due to the wickedness of mankind. Do not imagine the impious are driven by Furies, as is represented in the Tragedies, and chastised with blazing torches; nay! it is reckless indulgence in bodily pleasures that is the scourge, and im- moderate desires). Comp. Theon, Progymn., ch. 7.— Cicero, Orat. in Pison., 20., Nolite putare, PatresConscripti, ut in scena videtis homines consceleratos impulso deorum terreri Furiarum taedis ardenti- bus. Sua quemque fraus, suum facinus,suum scelus,sua audacia de sanitate ac mente deturbat. Hae sunt impiorum Furiae,
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