Note 237 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)

Amores, chs. 20, 21. The hetaera Glycera would seem, according to Clearchus’ report, to have said, καὶ οἱ παῖδες εἰσι καλοὶ, ὅσον ἐοίκασι γυναικὶ χρόνον. (And boys are beautiful for so long as they resemble a woman). Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 605 D. According to Hellanicus, as Donatus, on Terence’s Eunuch., I. 2. 87. notifies, the custom of emasculating boys would seem to have come from the Babylonians. Herodotus, III. 92., says that the Babylonians were bound to deliver every year as tribute to the Persian king 500 castrated boys.