ATHENEUS. BY C. D. YONGE, B. A. WITH AN APPENDIX OF POETICAL FRAGMENTS, HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCC LIV. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. Love of Pleasure-Luxury of the Persians-Profligacy of the Lydians Persian Customs-The Sybarites-The Tarentines-The Milesians- The Abydenes-The Colophonians-Luxury of the Syrians-Of the Asiatic Kings-Sardanapalus-Philip-The Pisistratidæ-Alcibiades -Pausanias - Diomnestus-Alexander - Polycrates - Agrigentum —Lucullus —Aristippus — The Persian -Epicurus-Anaxarchus — Lacedæmonian Marriages-Hercules-Rapacity of Courtesans-Folly of Marrying-Love-Beauty-Courtesans-Hetæræ-Courtesans— Jesters-Concerts-Songs - Rhapsodists - Magodi - Harp-players- salians-Ματτύη The Cottabus Garlands - Dyes - Perfumes - Libations - Scolia- 1062-1122 BOOK XII. 1. You appear to me, my good friend Timocrates, to be a man of Cyrene, according to the Tyndareus of Alexis For there if any man invites another And it would be better for me also to hold my tongue, and not to add anything more to all that has been said already; but since you ask me very earnestly for a discussion on those men who have been notorious for luxury, and on their effeminate practices, you must be gratified. 2. For enjoyment is connected, in the first instance, with appetite; and in the second place, with pleasure. And Sophocles the poet, being a man fond of enjoyment, in order to avoid accusing old age, attributed his impotence in amatory pleasures to his temperance, saying that he was glad to be released from them as from some hard master. But I say that the Judgment of Paris is a tale originally invented by the ancients, as a comparison between pleasure and virtue. Accordingly, when Venus, that is to say pleasure, was preferred, everything was thrown into confusion. And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to have invented his fable about Hercules and Virtue on the same principle. For according to Empedocles Mars was no god to them, nor gallant War, |