Chapter XXVIII.—Condemnation of the Greek Legislation.
On this account I reject your legislation also; for there ought to be one common polity
for all; but now there are as many different codes as there are states, so that things held dis-
graceful in some are honourable in others. The Greeks consider intercourse with a mother
as unlawful, but this practice is esteemed most becoming by the Persian Magi; pæderasty is
condemned by the Barbarians, but by the Romans, who endeavour to collect herds of boys
like grazing horses, it is honoured with certain privileges.
Chapter XXVIII. Condemnation of the Greek Legislation.
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Chapter XXVIII. Condemnation of the Greek Legislation.