[263] Bk IX. Epigr. 9. Comp. _Suetonius_, Nero 28, 29. _Dio Cassius_, LXII. 28., LXIII. 13. _Juvenal_, Satir. I. 62., and especially _Tacitus_, Annal., Bk. XV. 37.—_Tatian_, Orat. ad Graec., p. 100., Παιδεραστία μὲν ὑπὸ βαρβάρων διώκεται, προνομίας δὲ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἠξίωται, παίδων ἀγέλας, ὥσπερ ἵππων φορβάδων, συναγείρειν αὐτῶν πειρωμένων. (Paederastia is followed by barbarians generally, but is held in pre-eminent esteem by Romans, who endeavour to get together herds of boys, as it were of brood mares). _Justin Martyr_, Apolog., I. p. 14., Πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι τοὺς πάντας σχεδὸν ὁρῶμεν ἐπὶ πορνείᾳ προάγοντας, οὐ μόνον τὰς κόρας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄρσενας· καὶ ὃν τρόπον λέγονται οἱ παλαιοὶ ἀγέλας βοῶν, ἢ αἰγῶν, ἢ προβάτων τρέφειν, ἢ ἵππων φορβάδων, οὕτω νῦν δὲ παῖδας, εἰς τὸ αἰσχρῶς χρῆσθαι μόνον, καὶ ὁμοίων θηλειῶν, καὶ ἀνδρογύνων, καὶ ἀῤῥητοποιῶν πλῆθος κατὰ τὸ πᾶν ἔθνος ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ ἅγους ἔστηκεν. (First because we behold nearly all men seducing to fornication not merely girls, but also males. And just as our fathers are spoken of as keeping herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep, or of brood mares, so now they keep boys, solely for the purpose of shameful usage, treating them as females, or men-women, and doing unspeakable acts. To such a pitch of pollution has the multitude throughout the whole people come). [264] That boys were kept in the brothels at Rome as paramours is seen from a host of passages in Ancient authors, e. g. _Martial_, bk. XI. Epigr. 45., Intrasti quoties inscriptae limina cellae _Seu puer_ arrisit, sive puella tibi. (As oft as you have crossed the threshold of a “chamber” inscribed with name on door, whether it were _boy_ that threw you a smile, or girl). They, as well as women, had to pay the Whore-tax. Comp. above p. 118. Note 6. [265] Bk. III. Epigr. 71. [266] _Caelius Aurelianus_, Acut. morb. (Acute Diseases), bk. III. ch. 18., Aliorum autem medicorum, excepto Themisone, nullus hanc passionem conscribit, cum non solum raro, verum etiam coacervatim, saepissime invasisse videatur. Memorat denique Themison, apud Cretam multos satyriasi interfectos. (But of other physicians none, with the exception of Themison, describes this complaint, though it appears to have attacked the population very frequently not only sporadically, but actually as an epidemic. In fact Themison records that in Crete men died of Satyriasis). [267] “Handbuch der medicin. Klinik” (Manual of Clinical Medicine), Vol. VII. pp. 88 and 670. [268] Bk. VI. Epigr. 37. [269] _Martial_, Bk. XI. Epigr. 99. [270] _Martial_, XI. 88. [271] _Martial_, VI. 49. [272] _Martial_, Bk. XII. Epigr. 33. [273] _Martial_, Bk. I. Epigr. 66. The old Grammars had the following lines: _Haec ficus_, fici vel ficus, fructus et arbor, _Hic ficus_, fici, _malus est in podice morbus_. (Feminine:—_ficus_, gen. -i and -us, fig and fig-tree; masculine:—_ficus_, gen. -i, _is an evil disease of the fundament_.) [274] Satir. Bk. I. Sat. VIII. 46.