Book 13
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But that systematic debaucher of youths of yours, is such a person as Alexis, or Antiphanes, represents him, in his Sleep— On this account, that profligate, when supping With us, will never eat an onion even, Not to annoy the object of his love. And Ephippus has spoken very well of people of that description in his Sappho, where he says— For when one in the flower of his age Learns to sneak into other men's abodes, And shares of meals where he has not contributed, He must some other mode of payment mean. And Aeschines the orator has said something of the same kind in his Speech against Timarchus.
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But concerning courtesans, Philetærus, in his Huntress, has the following lines:— 'Tis not for nothing that where'er we go We find a temple of Hetæra there, But nowhere one to any wedded wife. I know, too, that there in a festival called the Hetæridia, which is celebrated in Magnesia, not owing to the courtesans, but to another cause, which is mentioned by Hegesander in his Commentaries, who writes thus:—The Magnesians celebrate a festival called Hetæridia; and they give this account of it: that originally Jason, the son of Aeson, when he had collected the Argonauts, sacrificed to Jupiter Hetæias, and called the festival Hetæridia. And the Macedonian kings also celebrated the Hetæridia.
