ἐν Ἤλιδι
κτλ. Cp. Xen. Symp. VIII. 34,
Rep. Lac. l.c., Athen. XIII. 2. The Cretan ἁρπαγμὸς παιδῶν (Laws VIII. 836) points to a similar
state of things.
τῆς δὲ Ἰωνίας. The genitive is taken
by Hug as dependent on πολλαχοῦ, by Stallb. as
dependent on ὅσοι, “vel potius ex
demonstrativo ante ὅσοι intelligendo.” Hug
quotes Xen. Hell. IV. 4. 16 πολλαχόσε καὶ τῆς
Ἀρκαδίας ἐμβαλόντες.
ὅσοι...οἰκοῦσι. The grammar is
loose—“per synesin additur ὅσοι
perinde ac si praecessisset ‘apud Ionas autem et multos
alios’” (Stallb.). The language is most appropriate to a time
after the Peace of Antalcidas (387 B.C.), when the Greeks of Asia Minor were again
reduced to subjection to the Great King (see Bury, Hist. Gr. p. 552);
cp. Crat. 409 E
οἱ ὑπὸ τοῖς βαρβάροις οἰκοῦντες: Laws 693 A.
τοῦτό γε καὶ
κτλ. Strictly we should supply, with τοῦτο, τὸ χαρίζεσθαι ἐρασταῖς, but the notion latent is
probably the more general one τὸ ἐρᾶν (παίδων). The palaestrae (gymnasia) were recognized as the
chief seats of
φιλοσοφία and παιδεραστία as well as of φιλογυμναστία.
Cp. (for παιδεραστία) Ar. Nub. 973
ff., 980 αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν προαγωγεύων τοῖς
ὀφθαλμοῖς: Laws 636 B:
Xen. Cyrop. II. 3. 21: Cic. Tusc. IV. 33. 70 in
Graecorum gymnasiis...isti liberi et concessi sunt amores. Bene ergo Ennius: flagiti
principium est nudare inter cives corpora: Plut. amat. 751 F
ff. The gymnasia also served, at Athens, as headquarters of political clubs, cp.
Athen. XIII. 602.
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