[254] _Plato_, Sympos. p. 182. 6. _Xenophon_, Sympos. VIII. 34.—_Cicero_, De Republ., IV. 4., Apud Eleos et Thebanos in amore ingenuorum libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam. (Among the Eleans and Thebans, in the love of free men, lust has actually a permitted and unchecked licence). _Maximus Tyrius_, Diss. XXXIX. p. 467. _Plutarch_, De pueror. educat., ch. 14. The Elean “boy-loving” was even more notorious than the Boeotian. _Xenophon_, De Republ. Lacedaem., II. 13. _Maximus Tyrius_, Diss., XXVI. p. 317. [255] _Theognis_, Sentent., 39. [256] Descript. Graeciae, Bk. I. ch. 43., Μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Διονύσου τὸ ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀφροδίτης ναός· ἄγαλμα δὲ ἐλέφαντος Ἀφροδίτῃ πεποιημένον, Πρᾶξις ἐπίκλησιν· τοῦτ’, ἐστιν ἀρχαιότατον ἐν τῷ ναῷ· [257] _Pollux_, Onomast., bk. VII. ch. 33. says: εἰ δὲ χρὴ καὶ τὰς αἰσχίους _πράξεις_ τέχνας ὀνομάζειν, (if that is we must call the more disgraceful πράξεις—doings, modes of intercourse—arts); and then cites the different designations of whores, brothels, etc. [258] _Hesychius_ under the word χαλκιδίζειν. _Athenaeus_ Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 601 e. _Plutarch_, Amat., 38. 2. [259] _Σιφνιάζειν_· ἐπὶ τῶν τὰς χεῖρας προσαγόντων τοῖς ἰσχίοις, ὥσπερ _λεσβιάζειν_ ἐπὶ τῶν παρανομούντων ἐν τοῖς ἀφροδισίοις· σιφνιάζειν δὲ καὶ λεσβιάζειν, ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου Σίφνου καὶ τῆς Λέσβου· ὡς καὶ τὸ _κρητίζειν_ ἀπὸ τῆς Κρήτης· καὶ τὸ Σίφνιος δὲ ἀῤῥαβὼν, ὁμοίως _σιφνιάζειν γὰρ τὸ ἅπτεσθαι τῆς πυγῆς δακτύλῳ_. Λεσβιάζειν δὲ τὸ τῷ στόματι παρανομεῖν. _Hesychius_ s. v. Σίφνιοι· ἀκάθαρτοι· ἀπὸ Σίφνου τῆς νήσου. _Σίφνιος ἀῤῥαβών_· περὶ τῶν Σιφνίων ἄτοπα διεδίδοτο, ὡς τῷ δακτύλῳ σκιμαλιζόντων· δηλοῖ οὖν τὸν διὰ δακτυλίου αἰδούμενον ἐπὶ τοῦ κακοσχόλου. (To play the Siphnian: said of those who apply the hands to the loins; as “to play the Lesbian” of those who act viciously in carnal pleasures.) Σιφνιάζειν and λεσβιάζειν from the islands Siphnos and Lesbos; just as the expression κρητίζειν (to play the Cretan) from Crete. Also the phrase “_Siphnian_ surety”; for in the same way “to play the Siphnian” means to finger the posterior. But “to play the Lesbian”; to act viciously with the mouth.—_Hesychius_ under the word Σίφνιοι: Siphnians, i.e. unclean persons; from the island of Siphnos. “_Siphnian_ surety”: of the Siphnians abominable tales were told, to the effect that they poked the posterior with the finger. Signifies therefore one who acts disgracefully in connection with the anus, said of the idle voluptuary. Comp. σκιμαλίσαι, σκινδαρεύεσθαι in the same—Hesychius. [260] Comp. _Libanius_, In Florent., p. 430. _Toup_, Opusc. critic., Leipzig 1780. p. 420. [261] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 517 f. [262] _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, Exc. p. 2336. _Valerius Maximus_, Bk. VI. 1. 9. _Suidas_, under Γαΐος Λαιτώριος (Caius Laetorius).