The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
History
The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
(So thence a _phrase-making_ word-sifting, smooth tongue ...)
[16] Comp. p. 172 above. _Lucian_, Pseudolog. ch. 31., calls it
παροινῶν (acting drunkenly). _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. ch. 80.,
φιλόπαις δ’ ἦν _ἐκμανῶς_ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὁ βασιλεύς. (And he was a
lover of boys, _to an insane degree_, was Alexander the King). _Dio
Chrysostom_, Tarsica I. p. 409., says of the ῤέγχειν (snorting of the
Cinaedi): ἀλλ’ ἐστὶ σημεῖον τῆς αἰσχάτης ὕβρεως καὶ _ἀπονοίας_ (but
it is a sign of the most abandoned insolence and _infatuation_), and
again p. 412.: ὡς ἤδη μανία τὸ γιγνόμενον ἔοικεν αἰσχρᾷ καὶ ἀπρέπει
(so now the resulting condition resembles madness, disgraceful and
unseemly madness). _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. bk. III. ch. 8.,
περὶ τὰ παιδικὰ _ἐκμανῶς_ ἐπτοημένοι (men set upon enjoyments with boys
_insanely_). But above all is the following passage from Juvenal (Sat.
VI. 299) apposite in this connection:
... Quid enim Venus ebria curat?
Inguinis et capitis quae sint discrimina nescit.
(For of what does drunken love take heed? What are the differences
betwixt groin and head, she ignores). _Seneca_, De ira II.: _Raptus_
ad stupra et _ne os quidem libidini exceptum_. (Carried away
into obscenities and not even the mouth held secure from lust).
_Lactantius_, VI. 23., Quorum teterrima libido et execrabilis _furor_
ne _capiti_ quidem parcit. (Whose most foul lust and abominable
_frenzy_ spares not even _the head_).
[17] _Xenophon_, Cyropaed. II. 2. 28. Hence too _Cicero_, Tuscul.
V. 20., Haberet etiam _more Graeciae_ quosdam adolescentes amore
coniunctos (he would keep also, _after the fashion of Greece_, sundry
young men bound to him in ties of affection); of course it is a
question here of Paedophilia merely, but we have seen how readily this
was confounded with Paederastia. _Aristophanes_, Eccles. 918.,
ἤδη τὸν ἀπ’ Ἰωνίας
τρόπον τάλαινα κνησιᾷς·
δοκεῖς δέ μοι καὶ λάβδα κατὰ τοὺς Λεσβίους.
(Now, wretched woman, you itch after the fashion of Ionia; and you
appear to me to long even for the _Lambda_ (licking) of the Lesbian
mode). Hence _motus Ionicos_ (Ionic movements) in _Horace_, Odes III.
5. 24. and _Plautus_, Stich. V. 7. 1., Quis _Ionicus_ aut cinaedus qui
hoc tale facere posset. (What _Ionian_ or cinaedus is there could show
himself capable of such an act as this).
[18] _Hippocrates_, Epidem. bk. II. sect. 1. edit. Kühn, Vol. III. p.
435.
[19] Comment. in Hippocrat. Epidem., bk. II. edit. Kühn, Vol. XVII. A.
p. 312.
[20] _Martial_, bk. XII. 55., Nec clusis aditum neget labellis. (and
refuse not access by shutting the lips).
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