Note 192
The Persians had been corrupted in the same school;
(Herodot. l. i. c. 135.) A curious dissertation
might be formed on the introduction of paederasty after the
time of Homer, its progress among the Greeks of Asia and
Europe, the vehemence of their passions, and the thin device
of virtue and friendship which amused the philosophers of
Athens. But
scelera ostendi oportet dum puniuntur, abscondi
flagitia.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44