[113] _Proverbs_, Ch. 7. vv. 6-27. Compare _Genesis_, Ch. 38. v. 14.—_Ezekiel_, Ch. 25.
[114] _Leviticus_, Ch. 19. v. 19.—_Deuteronomy_, Ch. 23. v. 17.; this latter passage _Beer_ (loco citato) would fain utilise to free the Jews from the suspicion of having disseminated the Venereal disease in the XVth. Century. _Spencer_, “De Legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus,” (On the ritual laws of the Jews), p. 563., however showed at once that the prohibition strictly speaking only went so far as to forbid that harlotry should be practised for the honour of God, as among other Asiatic peoples; and explains the first passage in this sense, that the Jews must not, _as had happened_, dedicate their daughters to the service of Mylitta.
[115] _Richter_, XVI. 1.—1 _Kings_, Ch. 3. 16.—_Proverbs_, Ch. 2. 16., Ch. 5. 3., Ch. 7. 10., Ch. 23. 27.—_Amos_, Ch. 2. 7., Ch. 7. 17.—_Baruch_, Ch. 6. 43. Comp. _Grotius_, “Ad Matthaei Evangelium,” (Commentary on St. Matthew), V. 3. 4.—_Hartmann_, “Die Hebräerin am Putztisch und als Braut,” (The Hebrew woman at the Toilette table and as Bride), Amsterdam 1809. Pt. II. pp. 493 sqq.
[116] Deipnosoph., bk. XIII. p. 598. v. 65.
[117] _Philo_, De special. legg., Works ed. Mangeyn, Vol. II. p. 301. _Clement of Alexandria_, Stromat. III. quotes from _Xanthus_: μίγνυντο δὲ, φήσιν, οἱ Μάγοι μητράσι, καὶ θυγατράσι, καὶ ἀδελφαῖς μίγνυσθαι θεμιτὸν εἶναι, (Now the Magi, he says, used to have intercourse with mothers, and held it lawful to do so with daughters and with sisters). Comp. the same author’s Recognit., bk. IX. ch. 20.—_Sextus Empiricus_, Pyrrh. hypot. bk. III. 24.—_Origen_, Contra Celsum, bk. V. p. 248.—_Jerome_, Contra Jovian. bk. II.—_Cyril_, Adv. Julian. bk. IV.—_Sophocles_, Oedipus Tyrannus 1375 and 452.
τοιοῦτονῦτον πᾶν τὸ βάρβαρον γένος, πατήρ τε θυγατρὶ, παῖς τε μητρὶ, μίγνυται.
(Such is the habit of the whole barbarian race,—father has intercourse with daughter, and son with mother).
[119] _Osann_, “De caelibum apud veteres populos conditione,” (On the Status of Bachelors among the Ancient Peoples), Commentat. I. Giessen 1827. 4to.
[120] _Demosthenes_, Orat. in Neaeram, edit. Wolf, p. 534., τὰς μὲν γὰρ ἑταίρας ἡδονῆς ἕνεκ’ ἔχομεν, τὰς δὲ παλλακὰς τῆς καθ’ ἡμέραν θεραπείας τοῦ σώματος, τὰς δὲ γυναῖκας τοῦ παιδοποιεῖσθαι γνησίως καὶ τῶν ἔνδον φύλακα πιστὴν ἔχειν. (for hetaerae—lady-companions—we keep for our pleasure, but concubines for the daily service of the person, and wives for the procreation of lawful children and to have a trusty guardian of household matters). The same sentence is quoted from Demosthenes by _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XIII. ch. 31., but with the difference that he says παλλακὰς τῆς καθ’ ἡμέραν παλλακείας (concubines for daily concubinage). Comp. _Plutarch_, Praecept. Coniugal., ch. 16. 29. It is true this purely moral view, as it was originally, of marriage, came in times subsequent to just the flourishing period of Greece to contrast so sharply with the rest of the Greeks, full and imaginative as it was, that it appears an exceedingly homely bit of prose, and one is led away to pass a not exactly favourable judgement as to the position of Greek married women and their level of culture. But is this quite fair?