[349] _Cicero_, De Divinat. I. 38., Aristoteles quidem eos etiam, qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur, censebat habere aliquid in animis praesagiens atque divinum. (Aristotle indeed considered that such men as were mad in consequence of ill-health and were called “melancholics”, also possessed in their minds somewhat of the prophetic and divine).
[350] _Aristotle_, Nicomach. Ethics VII. ch. 11., ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀκρατὴς οὐκ ἐμμένει τῷ λόγῳ διὰ τὸ μᾶλλον. ch. 12. ἔτι ἐμπόδιον τῷ φρονεῖν αἱ ἡδοναὶ, καὶ ὅσῳ μᾶλλον χαίρει, μᾶλλον, οἷον τὴν τῶν ἀφροδισίων οὐδένα γὰρ ἂν δύνασθαι νοῆσαί τι ἐν αὐτῇ.... ἔτι παιδία καὶ θηρία διώκει τὰς ἡδονάς. (For the reason why the incontinent person does not abide by reason lies in an excess.—ch. 12., Pleasures too are an impediment to thoughtfulness, and the greater the pleasure, the greater the impediment, as e.g. the pleasure of love, for thought is out of the question, while it lasts.... And lastly children and brute beasts pursue pleasure).
[351] So _Quintilian_, Declam. III., says: Siculi in tantum vitio regnant, ut obscoenis cupiditatibus natura cesserit, ut pollutis _in femineam_ usque _patientiam_ maribus incurrat iam libido in sexum suum. (The Sicilians are so predominant in vice, that Nature has ceased to satisfy their fool lusts,—that males are debauched to _a feminine passivity_ (to suffer treatment proper to women), and men fall back for the gratification of their concupiscence on their own sex).
_Seneca_, Epist. 95., Libidine vero ne maribus quidem cedunt, _pati natae_. (In concupiscence they yield not even to males, _though born to the_ passive part).
[352] Nonne vehementissime admiraretur, si quisquam non gratissimum munus arbitraretur, virum se natum, sed depravato naturae beneficio in _mulierem convertere se_ properasset. (Should one not marvel exceedingly, if any man should fail to hold it a most excellent privilege to have been born a man, but should rather, degrading the gift of nature, have hasted _to turn himself into a woman_) says _Rutilius Lupus_, De figur. sentent. bk. II. Speaking of men who use unguents, _Clement of Alexandria_, Paedag. bk. II. ch. 8. p. 177., says, ἀνδρωνῖτιν ἐκθηλύνουσιν and τὰ γενικὰ ἐκθηλύνειν (they womanize their manhood, to womanize their sex). Similarly, though with a different reference, _Clearchus_ says of the Lydians, τέλος, τὰς ψυχὰς ἄποθηλυνθεντες ἦλλαξάντο τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν βίον. (in fine, having become womanized in their souls, they adopted the mode of life of women). _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. XII. p. 516.