Certainly we have already seen from the passage of _Lucian_ and from _Philo_ that Paederastia supplied a motive for the making of Eunuchs; but the passages quoted from _Athanasius_ and other Authors have also taught us that the pollution of boys was carried out in honour of Venus in her temples. As for the _auctoritas Valesii_ (authority of Valesius), _Stark_ adds in his notes (49): “Eandem vim his verbis tribuit, ut ex interpretatione ejus Latina Eusebii videre est. Histor. scriptor. ecclesiast. Paris 1677. fol. p. 211. B.” (He assigns the same force to these words, as may be seen from his Latin translation of Eusebius). To our regret we are unable to refer to this edition,—which it appears to us would have been a highly desirable precaution; for the one which lies before us,[381] a word for word, only more correct, re-impression of the Paris edition, gives the version of Valesius entirely in our sense: “Quippe effeminati quidam et feminae potius dicendi quam viri, abdicata sexus sui gravitate, _muliebria patientes_, daemonem placabant.” (Whereas certain effeminate men, that should rather be called women than men, abrogating the dignity of their sex, and suffering treatment proper to women, used in this way to propitiate their deity.) The same holds good of the translation given by _Stark_: “Viri effeminati et non viriles, naturae dignitatem ultro exuentes, _morbo muliebri_ deam placabant.” (Effeminate men and unmanly, of their own will putting off their nature dignity, used to propitiate the goddess _with feminine disease_.) Ought this to be taken as implying a claim on his behalf to the translation generally as adduced by him or merely to the rendering of the word γύννιδες by _viri effeminati_? The previous authorities, _Eustathius_, _Hesychius_ and _Zonaras_, at any rate refer only to γύννιδες, while _Stark_ himself assigns it the meaning of the _Vice of the Pathic_ in the last words quoted.