[Footnote 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.]