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Plato, Sympos. p. 182. 6. Xenophon, Sympos. VIII. 34.—Cicero, De Republ., IV. 4., Apud Eleos et Thebanos in amore ingenuorum libido etiam permissam habet et solutam licentiam. (Among the Eleans and Thebans, in the love of free men, lust has actually a permitted and unchecked licence). Maximus Tyrius, Diss. XXXIX. p. 467. Plutarch, De pueror. educat., ch. 14. The Elean “boy-loving” was even more notorious than the Boeotian. Xenophon, De Republ. Lacedaem., II. 13. Maximus Tyrius, Diss., XXVI. p. 317.