viii) and that in Juvenal (Sat.

vi, 125) are not to be taken literally.

"Aes" in the latter should be understood to mean what we would call "the coin," and not necessarily coin of low denomination.
PAEDERASTIA.
The origin of this vice (all peoples, savage and civilized, have been infected with it) is lost in the mists which shroud antiquity.

The Old Testament contains many allusions to it, and Sodom was destroyed because a long-suffering deity could not find ten men in the entire city who were not addicted to its practice.

So saturated was this city of the ancient world with the vice that the very name of the city or the adjective denoting citizenship in that city have transmitted the stigma to modern times.