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g2 HISTORY OF GREECE release! from their covenant, and would take provisions without buying. Then as to the rivers ; those were indeed difficult to be crossed in the middle of their course ; but the army would march up to their sources, and could then pass them without wetting the knee. Or indeed, the Greeks might renounce the idea of retreat, ancl establish themselves permanently in the king's own country, defying all his force, like the Mysians and Pisidians. " If (said Xenophon) we plant ourselves here at our ease in a rich country > with these tall, stately, and beautiful Median and Persian women for our companions, 1 we shall be only too ready, like the Lo- tophagi, to forget our way home. We ought first to go back to Greece, and tell our countrymen that if they remain poor, it is their own fault, when there are rich settlements in this country awaiting ah" who choose to come, and who have courage to seize them. Let us burn our baggage- waggons and tents, and carry with us nothing but what is of the strictest necessity. Above all things, 1 Xen. Anab. iii, 2, 25. ' AA/Ui yap SidoiKd fj.q uv U7ra [tudu/iev apyol fjv KOL iv u0$6voff /3iOTveiv, Kal Mqduv 6e xal Hspauv /caAcuf ical peydhaie yvvaii-l nal Trap- Hippokrates (De Acre, Locis, et Aquis, c. 12) compares the physical characteristics of Asiatics and Europeans, noticing the ample, full-grown, rounded, voluptuous, but inactive forms of the first, as contrasted with the more compact, muscular, and vigorous type of the second, trained for movement, action, and endurance. Dio Chrysostom has a curious passage, in reference to the Persian pref- erence for eunuchs as slaves, remarking that they admired even in males an approach to the type of feminine beauty. their eyes and tastes being under the influence only of aphrodisiac ideas ; whereas the Greeks, ac- customed to the constant training and naked exercises of the palaestra, boys competing with boys and youths with youths, had their associations of the male beauty attracted towards active power and graceful motion. Ov yup (jiavepdv, 6rt ol llspaai evvov%ovf eiroiovv roiif xa/loitf, 5iru<; avrolf ur Ku/Jiiaroi, uffi ; Tocrovrov Siatyepeiv favTO irpdf Ku2.7iof rb $^/ltr ff%e6dv xal KuvT oi Papftapoi, 6ia rb fiovov T& a(f>po6iaia evvoelv. KuKelvoi yvvai- Kof elfiof nepiTi'deaai roif upfteaiv, uAAuf 6' OVK kniaTavrat eppv Iffuf 6e KO! fj rpnipjj atria TOif Hepcraif, T$ iixpi Kok'kov rpE(f>Eodai VTTO re yvvaiKuv Kal evvoi>%uv ruv TrpeapvTepuv TralSac f5g fiera irauJwv, cat fieipaKia UETU fiEipa- K'LUV fj.f/ TTUVV avvelvai, /n^6s yv/uvovadai fv nahaiorpaie Kal yvpvaaioif, etc. (Orat. xxi, p. 270). Compare Euripides, Bacchae, 447 seq. ; and the Epigram of S "ato in thtt Anthologia, xxxiv, vol. ii, p. 367 Brunck.