The destruction of Corinth may well have avenged itself in this manner.

The accumulation of wealth and spoils gave the people more leisure, increased their means of enjoyment, and educated their taste in luxuries.

The influx of slaves and voluptuaries from the Levant aided in the dissemination of the vices of the orient among the ruder Romans.

As the first taste of blood arouses the tiger, so did the limitless power of the Republic and Empire react to the insinuating precepts of older and more corrupt civilizations.

The fragments of Lucilius make mention of the "cinaedi," in the sense that they were dancers, and in the earlier ages, they were.