Note 353 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)
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Hence paederastia is called also πασχητιασμός (practice of passive lust) in Lucian, Gallus 32. Clement of Alexandria, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 10. Eustathius, Comment. in Hexameron. p. 38. Also the verb πασχητιάω (to indulge in passive lust) is found in Lucian, Amor. 26., in this sense. The same is excellently expressed by an anonymous poet in the Greek Anthology. bk. II. tit. 5. No. 2.,
Ἀνέρας ἠρνήσαντο, καὶ οὐκ ἐγένοντο γυναῖκες· Οὔτ’ ἄνδρες γεγάασιν, ἐπεὶ πάθων ἔργα γυναικῶν, Οὐδὲ γυναῖκες ἔασιν, ἐπεὶ φύσιν ἔλλαχον ἀνδρῶν. Ἀνέρες εἰσὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ ἀνδράσιν εἰσὶ γυναῖκες.
(They refused to be men, and failed to become women. They are no men, for they endure the tasks of women, nor yet are they women, for they inherited at birth the nature of men. Men are they to women, and women to men).
In Aeschines, Orat. in Timarch., edit. Reiske p. 128., the pathic Timarchus is called the γυνὴ (woman, wife) of Hegesander, his violator: θαυμασάντων δὲ ὑμῶν, πῶς ἀνὴρ καὶ γυνὴ, καὶ τίς ὁ λόγος, εἶπε μικρὸν διαλιπών· ἀγνοεῖτε, ἔφη, ὅ, τι λέγω· ὁ μὲν ἀνὴρ ἐστὶν Ἡγήσανδρος ἐκεῖνος νυνὶ, ἔφη, πρότερον δ’ ἦν καὶ αὐτὸς Λεωδάμαντος γυνὴ· ἡ δὲ γυνὴ Τίμαρχος οὑτοσίν. (And when you wondered how he could be man and woman, and what the phrase meant, he replied after a moment’s pause. You don’t understand, he cried, what I mean. The husband is Hegesander yonder, he went on, now; but once Hegesander himself was wife of Leodamas; and the wife of Hegesander is Timarchus here). St. Amphilochius, who lived under Theodosius, says in his “Epistola iambica ad Seleucum” (Letter in iambic verse to Seleucus) vv. 90-99.,
ἄλλοι δ’ ἐκείνων ἔθνος ἀθλιώτατον, τῶν ἀῤῥένων τὴν δόξαν ἐξορχούμενον, μελῶν λιγυσμοῖς συγκατακλῶντες φύσιν. ἄνδρες, γυναῖκες ἄῤῥενες, θηλυδρίαι. Οὐκ ἄνδρες, οὐ γυναῖκες, ἀψευδεῖ λόγῳ. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ οὐ μένουσι, τὸ δ’ οὐκ ἔφθασαν, Ὃ μὲν γὰρ εἰσὶν οὐ μένουσι τῷ τρόπῳ, ὃ δ’ αὖ κακῶς θέλουσιν, οὐκ εἰσὶν φύσει. Ἀσωτίας αἴνιγμα καὶ γρίφος παθῶν. ἄνδρες γυναιξὶ καὶ γυναῖκες ἀνδράσιν.
(Others of them belong to that most miserable tribe that dances away their repute as man, breaking down their nature to the shrill tones of songs,—men that are male women, womanish men. Not men and not women are they in very truth. For the one sex they will not keep, the other they have not gained; for what they really are they remain not, such is their fashion, and what they foully long to be, that they are not, such is their nature. An enigma of uncleanness, and a riddle of lust. Men they are to women, and women to men).
Comp. Barth, Adversar. bk. XLIII. ch. 21. p. 1968., and the expression θήλεια Φιλόξενος (a feminine Philoxenus) quoted p. 169 above. The Romans also used their word femina (woman, wife) in the same way; as may be gathered from Ausonius, Epigr. LXIX.—In eum qui muliebria patiebatur (On one who suffered himself to be treated as a woman), where we read at the end:
Nolo tamen veteris documenta arcessere famae. Ecce ego sum factus femina de puero.
(Yet I need not call up instances from ancient legend. Lo! I myself have become a woman, who was erst a boy).
Petronius, Satir. 75, femina ipse mei domini fui.—I myself (masc.) was my master’s wife. Justin, Hist. Philipp. I. 3. Curtius, III. 10.