the charge of the Germans, whose purity of morals is not impugned by any other Writers. But surely he did not take into consideration that Sextus Empiricus lived about 200 years after Christ, and is speaking of the Germans of his own times, not of the old Germans such as _Tacitus_ and _Caesar_ knew them. It is hardly likely the Germans of Sextus’ and Synesius’ day should have entirely escaped the universal degeneracy of all Nations; and again, with what object did German Emperors at a later date promulgate laws against the vice of Paederastia, Sodomy, etc., if it did not exist among their people? _Clement of Alexandria_, after speaking of the objectionable character of the worship of the different gods of the Heathen, goes on to relate as follows[384]: “All blessings befall that King of the Scythians, whatever his name may have been, who when one of his subjects copied the service of the Mother of the gods usual among the people of Cyrené, beating the drum and clashing the cymbals hung at his neck, and dedicating himself as a Menagyrtes (Priest of Cybelé), shot him dead, as a man who had been made _no man_ (ἄνανδρος) among the Greeks, and as a teacher of the _feminine disease_ (νόσος θήλεια) to the rest of the Scythians.” _Herodotus_[385] who tells the same story, calls the King Saulius and the offending citizen Anarcharsis[386], but makes no mention, any more than do _Diogenes Laertius_ and _Philo_[387], of the θήλεια νοῦσος (feminine disease). Accordingly we must evidently regard this as an _addition_ on the part of Clement of Alexandria, who judging from his own times, when the Priests of Cybelé universally practised paederastia with each other, and in order to further lay stress on the fact that the Scythian king had done right in killing the man who was introducing a heathen, and besides an exceedingly licentious, form of worship, felt no hesitation in making the addition. And as a matter of fact, how widely paederastia prevailed in the time of Clement of Alexandria, and how intimately he was acquainted with it, is proved by the passages quoted on previous pages from his writings. _Stark_ prefers here also to understand a _vera eviratio_ (true effemination), i.e. that they were actually castrated, maintaining that this was the case with the priests of Cybelé, whilst _Larcher_ considers merely the womanish cult of the _Dea Mater_ (Goddess Mother) to be indicated.