Note 352 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)

Nonne vehementissime admiraretur, si quisquam non gratissimum munus arbitraretur, virum se natum, sed depravato naturae beneficio in mulierem convertere se properasset. (Should one not marvel exceedingly, if any man should fail to hold it a most excellent privilege to have been born a man, but should rather, degrading the gift of nature, have hasted to turn himself into a woman) says Rutilius Lupus, De figur. sentent. bk. II. Speaking of men who use unguents, Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 8. p. 177., says, ἀνδρωνῖτιν ἐκθηλύνουσιν and τὰ γενικὰ ἐκθηλύνειν (they womanize their manhood, to womanize their sex). Similarly, though with a different reference, Clearchus says of the Lydians, τέλος, τὰς ψυχὰς ἄποθηλυνθεντες ἦλλαξάντο τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν βίον. (in fine, having become womanized in their souls, they adopted the mode of life of women). Athenaeus, Deipnos. XII. p. 516.