Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...

Laws relating to the Love of Boys; Procurers, and Strumpets.

NO Slave shall Caress, or be Enamour'd with a Free-born Youth, he who is, shall receive publickly fifty stripes.

If any one, whether Father, Brother, Uncle, or Guardian, or any other who hath Jurisdiction over a Boy, take hire for him to be effeminately embrac'd; the catamited Boy shall have no Action issued out against him, but the Chap-man, and Pander only, who are both to be punish'd after the same manner; the Child, when grown up to maturity of Age, shall not be oblig'd to keep his Father so offending, only, when dead, He shall bury him with decency suitable to a Parent's Obsequies.

If any one prostitute a Boy, or Woman, He shall be prosecuted with the Action call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and, if convicted, punish'd with Death.

Any Athenian impower'd so to do, may bring an Action against him who hath vitiated a Boy, Woman, or Man Free-born, or in Service, for the determination of which the Thesmothe••ae are to create Judges to sit in the Heliaea, within thirty days after the complaint hath been brought before them, or, suppose any publick concern hinders, as soon as occa∣sion will permit; if the Offender is cast, He shall immediately under∣go

the punishment, whether Corporal, or Pecuniary, annext to his Of∣fence; if he be sentenc'd to die let him be deliver'd to the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and suffer Death the same Day; if the vitiated Servant, or Woman be∣long to the Prosecutor, and he lets the Action fall, or doth not get the fifth part of the Suffrages, He shall be fin'd a thousand Drachms; if the Criminal be only fin'd, let him pay within eleven Days, at the far∣thest, after Sentence is past; if it be a Free-born Person he hath vitiated, let him be kept in bonds till payment thereof.

He, that hath prostituted himself for a Catamite, shall not be elected an Archon, Priest, or Syndic, shall execute no Office, either within, or out of Attica's boundaries, conferr'd by Lot, or Suffrage; he shall not be sent on an Embassie, pass Verdict, set footing within the pu∣blick Temples, be crown'd on solemnary Days, or enter the Fo∣rum's purified Precincts; if any one convicted of the above-mention'd lasciviousness be caught offending in any one of these points, he shall suffer Death.

Persons, who keep company with common Strumpets, shall not be accounted Adulterers, for such shall be in common for the satiating of Lust.

Whores shall wear, as a Badge of distinction, flower'd Garments.