Note 100 — Second Part.

Plutarch, De solert. anim. p. 972 D., Ἔρωτες δὲ πολλῶν οἱ μὲν ἄγριοι καὶ περιμανεῖς γεγόνασιν, οἱ δὲ ἔχοντες οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον ὡραϊσμόν. (But for the passions of many, some are naturally fierce and frantic, but there are others again that show no anti-social effeminacy). The Etymologicum Magnum says: ἄγριοι οἱ παιδεράσται, ἤτοι ὅτι ἄγριόν ἐστι τὸ πάθος ἡ παιδεραστία. (wild,—means the paederasts, that is, because the passion of paederastia is a wild one). Perhaps too the phrase of Theocritus is referable to the same: ἄγριον, ἄγριον ἕλκος ἔχει κατὰ μηρὸν Ἄδωνις (a savage, savage wound has Adonis in the thigh).