A philosophical dialogue concerning decency. To which is added a critical and historical dissertation on places of retirement for necessary occasions, together with an account of the vessels and utensils in use amongst the ancients, being a lecture read before a society of learned antiquaries / By the author of the Dissertation on barley wine [i.e. S. Rolleston].

  • Buckler, Benjamin, 1718-1780
Date:
1751
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Credit: A philosophical dialogue concerning decency. To which is added a critical and historical dissertation on places of retirement for necessary occasions, together with an account of the vessels and utensils in use amongst the ancients, being a lecture read before a society of learned antiquaries / By the author of the Dissertation on barley wine [i.e. S. Rolleston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they were not the only nation in the world, who did the fame, tho* I cannot at prefent recolledt the names of any other. * Anci you know there was a confiderable fed of phil6fophers, very fhrewd ones too, who ridicurd all this kind of modefty and fhamefacednefs, which you ftand up for. 2 Crates, who was from their dwelling in wooden towers. So Strabo tells us. ciKovm^ ^0 KOf MctwoIhh^ zKuXav ol rm 7rygy<yy L« 12. p. f49» dit. Cafaub. and fo Dionyf. defcribes them — Kotj d fAoos-wcts ’ixfin Ln^rtas —« Perieg. v. ']66, where Euftathius obferves o As to the indecency mention’d by Eutrapelus, it is taken notice of by feveral authors * — Xenophon’s army had experience of it. JV' xcef TcMi iTul^cui cdi d \y,(pcu/m vofASi yS' »jv (ripKn S7V5. Anab. L. y. p.392. edit, Hutchinf. and fo Apollon. Rhod. L. 2. io2y. Oh^'ihv^^ oci^hg uXb^ct trvig ag ^tuiov eiTu^ofJ^ot vizi^iovTug MtV^vTzef ^iA,cc^g \wj^ <ptXoT>}7i y^ycuxeiv. Pompon. Mela fays of them, ^romtfcue concumbunt ^ falkm, L.i. G.19. Diod. Siculus’s account of them is, rodg ^\y yuocM%h zrXi^cnx^Hy ecTetvruv o^mruy. L. 14* p. 2^0. edit. Rhodom. 1 Eutrapelus is in the right in faying, there were other nations befides the ^toflynians who made no fcruple of copulating in publick. The Maflagetae did the fame as we learn from Strabo. f^luv. »Xb.uv cmc ct(pcu>ag’ 0 UXb-cgfi^ 'rluo t^k^Tvaug 'f cUfAk^^g (^em/i^g |t4t- yyvTti\. L. 11, p. 5:13. Herodotus gives the fame account of them, L.i. c. ult. « The Namafones alfo a people in Africa feem guilty of the fame indecency ac¬ cording to the laft quoted author, yvujcuxtcg 5 yoy>l^cyreg TnXbMg i7rl}(^iV4V cwTtay riiy'fAliiy 7rtiiuy'Tti\. L. 4. 'and Sextus Empiricus tells US that fome of the Indians \pradtis’d the fame — x«/ to hifAs<n»t. ytweuK) *«/ Tti eivctf ^xSy Ttarf x ly^aly Otk, dvecf yof^l^oyjeef' f^lyvtu/^ ifv ci^9C^o^ag d^. Pyrrhon. Hypot. L.3. c.24. p.iy2. ed. Gen.itiii. 2 The Cynick fedfc was founded by-Antifthenes a fcholar of Socrates, as we learn from many of the Ancients. Some think it had this name from the place in Athens where Antifthenes kept his fchool, call’d Cynofarges, This Diog. Laert. has taken notice of, L. 6, feg. 13. But others think this name was given that fedt becaufe they made no fcruple, any more than dogs do, of copulating in the publick ftreets. Thus Ladtantius fays, ego de cy- nicis loquar^ quibus in ^opatulo coire cum conjugibus mosfuit. §^d mirum, fid cam-