But besides this the later view of a more enlightened time is also implied. According to this it was not any δύναμις τοῦ θεοῦ (operation of a god’s might), but simply an ἀσθενεία or ἀκρασία[348] (weakness, incontinence) of the individual that was in question, (and it is for this reason _Plutarch_ quotes the line of _Manetho_, an old and obscure poet, in this sense); Paederastia was called a πάθος, a form of insanity (παιδομανία—madness for boys), and was not looked upon in any sense as a consequence of the power of Eros—Love. That the vice was also called νόσος (a disease) is shown,—not to mention the expression νοῦσος θήλεια (feminine _disease_), which we have yet to fully explain,—by the Speech of Dio Chrysostom cited above, as well as by a number of passages quoted in the course of our investigation,—e.g. on p. 125. In the “Wasps” of _Aristophanes_, _Xanthias_ relates how a son had confined his father and put him under surveillance, and then goes on (vv. 71 sqq.): _νόσον_ γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ ἀλλόκοτον αὐτοῦ _νοσεῖ _, ἣν οὐδ’ ἂν εἷς γνοίη ποτ’ οὐδὲ ξυμβάλῃ, εἰ μὴ πύθοιθ’ ἡμῶν· ἐπεὶ τοπάζετε· (For his father is _sick_ of a portentous _sickness_, one that no one would ever know or conjecture the nature of, unless he should have learned it from us; for if you doubt me, guess yourselves.) Love of play is suggested, and love of drink, love of sacrifice and finally love of winning guests and seeing them at his house (φιλόξενον—lover of guests), which last conjecture Sosias understands in an obscene sense as implying a cinaedus, and (vv. 84 sqq.) says: μὰ τὸν κύν’, ὦ Νικόστρατ’, οὐ φιλόξενος, ἐπεὶ καταπύγων ἐστὶν ὅγε Φιλόξενος, (No! no! by heavens! Nicostratus, not a lover of guests (φιλόξενος) for our friend Philoxenus is a man given to unnatural lust,) where φιλόξενος and καταπύγων are explained as being synonymous. Now if paederastia had not been a disease, how should they have come to call a man φιλόξενος, when guessing the form his sickness took? For the rest there was a well-known cinaedus Philoxenus, to whom allusion is made. The scholiast quotes a very noteworthy line from _Eupolis_ (in the “Urbes”) or else from Phrynichus (“in the Satyrs”) as follows: ἔστι δέ τις _θήλεια_ Φιλόξενος ἐκ Διομείων. (And there is a certain _female_ Philoxenus of Diomeia);