[352] Nonne vehementissime admiraretur, si quisquam non gratissimum munus arbitraretur, virum se natum, sed depravato naturae beneficio in _mulierem convertere se_ properasset. (Should one not marvel exceedingly, if any man should fail to hold it a most excellent privilege to have been born a man, but should rather, degrading the gift of nature, have hasted _to turn himself into a woman_) says _Rutilius Lupus_, De figur. sentent. bk. II. Speaking of men who use unguents, _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 8. p. 177., says, ἀνδρωνῖτιν ἐκθηλύνουσιν and τὰ γενικὰ ἐκθηλύνειν (they womanize their manhood, to womanize their sex). Similarly, though with a different reference, _Clearchus_ says of the Lydians, τέλος, τὰς ψυχὰς ἄποθηλυνθεντες ἦλλαξάντο τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν βίον. (in fine, having become womanized in their souls, they adopted the mode of life of women). _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. XII. p. 516. [353] Hence paederastia is called also πασχητιασμός (practice of _passive_ lust) in _Lucian_, Gallus 32. _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 10. _Eustathius_, Comment. in Hexameron. p. 38. Also the verb πασχητιάω (to indulge in passive lust) is found in _Lucian_, Amor. 26., in this sense. The same is excellently expressed by an anonymous poet in the Greek Anthology. bk. II. tit. 5. No. 2., Ἀνέρας ἠρνήσαντο, καὶ οὐκ ἐγένοντο γυναῖκες· Οὔτ’ ἄνδρες γεγάασιν, ἐπεὶ πάθων ἔργα γυναικῶν, Οὐδὲ γυναῖκες ἔασιν, ἐπεὶ φύσιν ἔλλαχον ἀνδρῶν. Ἀνέρες εἰσὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ ἀνδράσιν εἰσὶ γυναῖκες. (They refused to be men, and failed to become women. They are no men, for they endure the tasks of women, nor yet are they women, for they inherited at birth the nature of men. Men are they to women, and women to men). In _Aeschines_, Orat. in Timarch., edit. Reiske p. 128., the pathic Timarchus is called the γυνὴ (woman, wife) of Hegesander, his violator: θαυμασάντων δὲ ὑμῶν, πῶς ἀνὴρ καὶ γυνὴ, καὶ τίς ὁ λόγος, εἶπε μικρὸν διαλιπών· ἀγνοεῖτε, ἔφη, ὅ, τι λέγω· ὁ μὲν ἀνὴρ ἐστὶν Ἡγήσανδρος ἐκεῖνος νυνὶ, ἔφη, πρότερον δ’ ἦν καὶ αὐτὸς Λεωδάμαντος _γυνὴ· ἡ δὲ γυνὴ_ Τίμαρχος οὑτοσίν. (And when you wondered how he could be man and woman, and what the phrase meant, he replied after a moment’s pause. You don’t understand, he cried, what I mean. The husband is Hegesander yonder, he went on, now; but once Hegesander himself was _wife_ of Leodamas; and the _wife_ of Hegesander is Timarchus here). _St. Amphilochius_, who lived under Theodosius, says in his “Epistola iambica ad Seleucum” (Letter in iambic verse to Seleucus) vv. 90-99., ἄλλοι δ’ ἐκείνων ἔθνος ἀθλιώτατον, τῶν ἀῤῥένων τὴν δόξαν ἐξορχούμενον, μελῶν λιγυσμοῖς συγκατακλῶντες φύσιν. ἄνδρες, γυναῖκες ἄῤῥενες, θηλυδρίαι. Οὐκ ἄνδρες, οὐ γυναῖκες, ἀψευδεῖ λόγῳ. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ οὐ μένουσι, τὸ δ’ οὐκ ἔφθασαν, Ὃ μὲν γὰρ εἰσὶν οὐ μένουσι τῷ τρόπῳ, ὃ δ’ αὖ κακῶς θέλουσιν, οὐκ εἰσὶν φύσει. Ἀσωτίας αἴνιγμα καὶ γρίφος παθῶν. ἄνδρες γυναιξὶ καὶ γυναῖκες ἀνδράσιν.