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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 602: Lovers against tyrants
Myrtilus calls a philosopher as witness: Hieronymus of Rhodes, a follower of Aristotle in the 3rd century BC, the same writer who tells the story of Sophocles and the stolen cloak a few pages on.
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Myrtilus
ἹερώνυμοςHierṓnymosHieronymusδ’d’andὁhotheπεριπατητικὸςperipatētikòsPeripateticπερισπουδάστουςperispoudástousmuch sought afterφησὶνphēsìnsaysγενέσθαιgenésthaiwereτοὺςtoùstheτῶνtôn—παίδωνpaídōnof boysἔρωταςérōtasloves,Read on word by word in the reader ›
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- 602a Lovers against tyrants. Hieronymus the Peripatetic says that the love of boys was much sought after because…
- 602b Chariton and Melanippus. Melanippus was the beloved, as Heraclides of Pontus says in his book On Love…
- 602c Cratinus. …Chariton and his friend, putting the pentameter before the hexameter, as Dionysius of Athens,…
- 602d Tyrants and wrestling schools. …in the second book of On Rites, Cratinus willingly gave himself up for the…
- 602e The Myrmidons. …Academic says, it is the custom before marriage to lie with girls as with…
- 602f Laius and Chrysippus. …was invented, says Polemon the travel writer in his Replies to Neanthes. But you,…
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