Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter XXVIII.--Condemnation of the Greek Legislation.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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 disgraceful 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. __________________________________________________________________
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