Book 13
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But Hegesander, in his Commentaries, says that all men love seasoned dishes, but not plain meats, or plainly dressed fish. And accordingly, when seasoned dishes are wanting, no one willingly eats either meat or fish; nor does any one desire meat which is raw and unseasoned. For anciently men used to love boys (as Aristophon relates); on which account it came to pass that the objects of their love were called παιδικά. And it was with truth (as Clearchus says in the first book of his treatise on Love and the Affairs of Love) that Lycophronides said— No boy, no maid with golden ornaments, No woman with a deep and ample robe, Is so much beautiful as modest; for 'Tis modesty that gives the bloom to beauty. And Aristotle said that lovers look at no other part of the objects of their affection, but only at their eyes, in which modesty makes her abode. And Sophocles somewhere represents Hippodamia as speaking of the beauty of Pelops, and saying— And in his eyes the charm which love compels Shines forth a light, embellishing his face: He glows himself, and he makes me glow too, Measuring my eyes with his,—as any builder Makes his work correspond to his careful rule. This fragment is from the Hippodamia.
