[98] Line 137. The joke here is that the father in Utopia suggests, of his own accord, what in Athens he carefully guarded against. [99] Page 222, Jowett's trans. [100] _Clouds_, 948 and on. I have abridged the original, doing violence to one of the most beautiful pieces of Greek poetry. [101] Aristophanes returns to this point below, line 1,036, where he says that youths chatter all day in the hot baths and leave the wrestling-grounds empty. [102] There was a good reason for shunning each. The Agora was the meeting-place of idle gossips, the centre of chaff and scandal. The shops were, as we shall see, the resort of bad characters and panders. [103] Line 1,071, _et seq._ [104] Caps. 44, 45, 46. The quotation is only an abstract of the original. [105] Worn up to the age of about eighteen. [106] Compare with the passages just quoted two epigrams from the _Mousa Paidiké_ (Greek _Anthology_, sect. 12): No. 123, from a lover to a lad who has conquered in a boxing-match; No. 192, where Straton says he prefers the dust and oil of the wrestling-ground to the curls and perfumes of a woman's room. [107] Page 255 B. [108] 1,025. [109] _Charmides_, p. 153. [110] _Lysis_, 206, This seems, however, to imply that on other occasions they were separated. [111] _Charmides_, p. 154, Jowett. [112] Page 155, Jowett. [113] Cap. i. 8. [114] See cap. viii. 7. This is said before the boy, and in his hearing. [115] Cap. iii. 12. [116] Cap. iv. 10, _et seq._ The English is an abridgment. [117] _Laws_, i. 636 C. [118] Athen., xiii. 602 D. [119] _Eroticus_. [120] Line 60, ascribed to Theocritus, but not genuine. [121] Athen., xiii. 609 D. [122] _Mousa Paidiké_, 86. [123] Compare the _Atys_ of Catullus: "Ego mulier, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer, Ego gymnasi fui flos, ego eram decus olei." [124] See the law on these points in _Æsch. adv. Timarchum_. [125] Thus Aristophanes, quoted above. [126] Aristoph., _Ach._, 144, and _Mousa Paidiké_, 130. [127] See Sir William Hamilton's _Vases_. [128] Lysias, according to Suidas, was the author of five erotic epistles adressed to young men. [129] See Aristoph., _Plutus_, 153-159; _Birds_, 704-707. Cp. _Mousa Paidiké_, 44, 239, 237. The boys made extraordinary demands upon their lovers' generosity. The curious tale told about Alcibiades points in this direction. In Crete they did the like, but also set their lovers to execute difficult tasks, as Eurystheus imposed the twelve labours on Herakles. [130] Page 29. [131] _Mousa Paidiké_, 8: cp. a fragment of Crates, _Poetæ Comici_, Didot, p. 83. [132] _Comici Græci_, Didot, pp. 562, 31, 308. [133] It is curious to compare the passage in the second _Philippic_ about the youth of Mark Antony with the story told by Plutarch about Alcibiades, who left the custody of his guardians for the house of Democrates. [134] See both _Lysias against Simon_ and _Æschines against Timarchus_.