The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
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The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
[380] _Eustathius_, Commentar. in Homer., Iliad 1680. 44., _Stark_
cites merely the figures. We can clearly see the meaning of γύννιδες
in the following passage of _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag., bk.
III. ch. 3. p. 227, τί τοίνυν οὐκ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύσειαν αἱ γυναῖκες, αἱ
εἰς μαχλοσύνην σπεύδουσαι, τοιαῦτα τολμῶσιν ἐνοποριζόμεναι τοῖς
ἀνδράσιν; _μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἄνδρας βατάλους δὲ καὶ γύννιδας καλεῖν
τούτους χρή_· ὧν καὶ αἱ φωναὶ τεθρυμμέναι καὶ ἡ ἐσθὴς τεθηλυμμένη
ἁφῇ καὶ βαφῇ· _δῆλοι δὲ οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἐλεγχόμενοι τὸν τρόπον ἔξωθεν
ἀμπεχόνῃ, ὑποδέσει, σχήματι, βαδίσματι, κουρᾷ, βλέμματι. Ἀπὸ ὁράσεως
γὰρ ἐπιγνωσθήσετο ἀνὴρ, ἡ Γραφὴ λέγει_ κ. τ. λ. (What then would
not women practise, such women as run into wantonness, rivalling the
men that dare such abominations? but these men ought we not rather to
call _batali_ (cinaedi) and _womanish fellows_? whose voices are broken
languishingly and their dress fashioned like women’s in texture and
colour. _Now such-like men are clearly manifest in outward appearance
for what they are by their show, and their foot-gear, by their bearing,
and walk, and hair, and glance. For by the eyes shall a man be known_,
says the Scripture, etc.). The word batalos meaning _cinaedus_ is found
also in _Aeschines_, In Timarch., p. 139, 163, 142. De legatione falsa,
p. 273. _Harpocration_ under the word, conjectured that the Cinaedi
were called for the same reason that e. g. Eupolis ὁ πρωκτός (the
wide-bottomed) was called βάταλος; and _Plutarch_ also, Vita Demosth. 4
_Schol._ Aeschin. p. 742., _Etymolog. Magnum_, 190. 20., agrees in same
idea. Comp. Schäfer, Apparat. Crit. ad Demosthen., I. 875. Moreover
this was the nickname of _Demosthenes_ (De Corona 288. 18.). At any
rate this passage of _Clement of Alexandria_ tells in favour of the
possibility of recognizing Pathics by their exterior!
[381] _Eusebii Pamphili_ Ecclesiasticae historiae libri decem; eiusdem
de vita imp. Constantini libri IV. Quibus subiicitur Oratio Constantini
ad Sanctos et Panegyricus Eusebii. _Henricus Valesius_ graecum textum
collatis IV. MSS. Codicibus emendavit, Latine vertit et Adnotationibus
illustravit. _Iuxta exemplar quod antea Parisiis excudebat Antonius
Vitré_, nunc vero _verbo tenus_ et correctius edebant Moguntiae
Christian Gerlach et Simon Beckenstein. MDCLXXII. fol. (_Eusebius
Pamphili_, Ecclesiastical Histories, X books; also the same author’s
Life of the Emperor Constantine, IV books. Together with Constantine,
“Ad Sanctos”, and the Panegyric of Eusebius. Greek text emended by the
collation of four MSS, a Latin translation provided and illustrative
notes added, by _Henricus Valesius_. Based on the edition first printed
at Paris by Antonius Vitré, now re-edited unexpurgated and corrected by
Christian Gerlach and Simon Beckenstein at Maintz. 1672. fol.)
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