(So the gratification even of natural pleasure is often blameworthy, when it is indulged immoderately and insatiably, just as men who are insatiably greedy about eating are blameworthy, even though they should not partake of any forbidden meats. So too men who are madly devoted to intercourse with women, and go with women lewdly,—not strange women but their own wives. _And the blame lies rather with the body than with the mind in most cases, for the body has within it a great flame, which using up the fuel cast to it, does not for long lack much moisture, the watery humour of which is drawn off by intercourse with women, producing ticklings and gnashings with the teeth and unappeasable itchings._) Immoderate copulation then with a man’s own wife is only a reproach that concerns the body more than the mind; on the other hand _Philo_ in the succeeding sentences speaks of those who practise fornication with _strange_ women as, ἀνίατον νόσον ψυχῆς νοσοῦντας (sick of an incurable sickness of the soul., _Clement of Alexandria_) Paedag. bk. II. ch. 10., μικρὰν ἐπιληψίαν τὴν συνουσίαν ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης ἔλεγε σοφιστής, νόσον ἀνίατον ἡγούμενος. (the sophist of Abdera used to speak of coition as a miniature epilepsy, deeming it an incurable disease). _Gellius_, bk. XIX. ch. 2., indeed attributes this expression to Hippocrates, _Stobaeus_, Florileg. I. 6. De intemperantia, to Eryximachus. [344] Eroticus ch. 19. in Plutarch, Opera Moralia, edit. A. G. Winckelmann, Vol. I. Zürich 1836. large 8vo. [345] Manetho, Astronom. bk. IV. 486., ἐν αἷς _ὕβρις_, οὐ Κύπρις ἄρχει. (women in whom overmastering insolence, not Love, rules). [346] _Plutarch_, De capt. util. ex host. p. 88. f., οὐκοῦν μηδὲ μοιχὸν λοιδορήσῃς, αὐτὸς ὢν παιδομανής. (Therefore you must not reproach even an adulterer, being yourself a paedomaniac). Comp. _Jacobs_, Animadv. in Antholog. (Notes on the Anthology), I. II. p. 244. _Athenaeus_, XI. p. 464. [347] _Isocrates_, Paneg. 32., ὕβρις παίδων (violence towards—violation of—boys). _Aeschines_, Timarch. pp. 5. and 26., πιπράσκειν τὸ σῶμα ἐφ’ ὕβρει and ὕβριν τοῦ σώματος (to buy the body for violation, violation of the body).