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Chapter XVIII.—The Philosophers Advocates of
Adultery.
“‘But why? Do not the celebrated
philosophers extol pleasure, and have they not had intercourse with
what women they would? Of these the first was that teacher of
Greece, of whom Phœbus himself said, “Of all men, Socrates
is the wisest.” Does not he teach that in a well-regulated
state women should be common?1051
| 1051 This from a marginal
reading. | and did he not
conceal the fair Alcibiades under his philosopher’s gown?
And the Socratic Antisthenes writes of the necessity of not abandoning
what is called adultery. And even his disciple Diogenes, did not
he freely associate with Lais, for the hire of carrying her on his
shoulders in public? Does not Epicurus extol pleasure? Did
not Aristippus anoint himself with perfumes, and devote himself wholly
to Aphrodite? Does not Zeno, intimating indifference, say that
the deity pervades all things, that it may be known to the intelligent,
that with whomsoever a man has intercourse, it is as with himself; and
that it is superfluous to forbid what are called adulteries, or
intercourse with mother, or daughter, or sister, or children. And
Chrysippus, in his erotic epistles, makes mention of the statue in
Argos, representing Hera and Zeus in an obscene
position.
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