Lamprias
LAMPRIAS. Love, they say, is a certain hunting after a young person who is as yet indeed imperfect, but naturally well-disposed towards virtue.
Diadumenus
DIADUMENUS. And what do we now else, O my best friend, but demonstrate that their sect perverts and destroys all our common conceptions with improbable things and unusual expressions? For none would hinder the solicitude of these wise men towards young persons, if it were free from all passionate affection, from being called hunting or love of instruction; but they ought to call love that which all men and women understand and call by this name, like that which Penelope’s suitors in Homer seem to acknowledge, Who all desired to lie with her;Odyss. I. 366. or as Jupiter in another place says to Juno, For neither Goddess yet nor mortal dame E’er kindled in my heart so great a flame. Il. XIV. 315.
