Aristippus
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- Zeno, amongst his laws, also regulated the motions to be observed in getting a maidenhead. What was the philosopher Strato's book Of Carnal Conjunction?--[ Diogenes Laertius, v. 59.]--And what did Theophrastus treat of in those he intituled, the one 'The Lover', and the other 'Of Love?' Of what Aristippus in his 'Of Former Delights'? What do the so long and lively descriptions in Plato of the loves of his time pretend to? and the book called 'The Lover', of Demetrius Phalereus? and 'Clinias', or the 'Ravished Lover', of Heraclides; and that of Antisthenes, 'Of Getting Children', or, 'Of Weddings', and the other, 'Of the Master or the Lover'? And that of Aristo: 'Of Amorous Exercises' What those of Cleanthes: one, 'Of Love', the other, 'Of the Art of Loving'? The amorous dialogues of Sphaereus? and the fable of Jupiter and Juno, of Chrysippus, impudent beyond all toleration? And his fifty so lascivious epistles? I will let alone the writings of the philosophers of the Epicurean sect, protectress of voluptuousness.
- Upon which let us say this in passing, that we deal liberally with a man of conscience when we propose to him some difficulty in counterpoise of vice; but when we shut him up betwixt two vices, he is put to a hard choice as Origen was either to idolatrise or to suffer himself to be carnally abused by a great Ethiopian slave they brought to him. He submitted to the first condition, and wrongly, people say. Yet those women of our times are not much out, according to their error, who protest they had rather burden their consciences with ten men than one mass.
- Sur quoy disons ce mot en passant, qu’on fait bon marché à un homme de conscience, quand on luy propose quelque difficulté au contrepoids du vice : mais quand on l’enferme entre deux vices, on le met à un rude choix. Comme on fit Origene : ou qu’il idolatrast, ou qu’il se souffrist jouyr charnellement, à un grand vilain Æthiopien qu’on luy presenta : Il subit la premiere condition : et vitieusement, dit-on. Pourtant ne seroient pas sans goust, selon leur erreur, celles qui nous protestent en ce temps, qu’elles aymeroient mieux charger leur conscience de dix hommes, que d’une messe.
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