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Πάνυ γοῦν σεμνὸς καὶ ὁ τύραννος Φάλαρις, ὅς, τοὺς ἐπιμαστιδίους θοινώμενος παῖδας, διὰ τῆς Πολυστράτου τοῦ Ἀμπρακιώτου κατασκευῆς μέχρι νῦν ὥς τις ἀνὴρ θαυμαστὸς δείκνυται· καὶ οἱ μὲν Ἀκραγαντῖνοι βλέπειν αὐτοῦ τὸ πρόσωπον τὸ προειρημένον διὰ τὴν ἀνθρωποφαγίαν ἐδεδίεσαν, οἷς δὲ μέλον ἐστὶ παιδείας αὐχοῦσιν ὅτι δι εἰκόνος αὐτὸν θεωροῦσι. Πῶς γὰρ οὐ χαλεπὸν ἀδελφοκτονίαν παρ ὑμῖν τετιμῆσθαι, οἱ Πολυνείκους καὶ Ἐτεοκλέους ὁρῶντες τὰ σχήματα, καὶ μὴ σὺν τῷ ποιήσαντι Πυθαγόρᾳ καταβοθρώσαντες; Ἐναπόλλυτε τῆς κακίας τὰ ὑπομνήματα. Τί μοι διὰ τὸν Περικλύμενον γύναιον, ὅπερ ἐκύησε τριάκοντα παῖδας, ὡς θαυμαστὸν ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ κατανοεῖν ποίημα; Πολλῆς γὰρ ἀκρασίας ἀπενεγκαμένῃ τὰ ἀκροθίνια βδελύττεσθαι καλὸν ἦν, τῇ κατὰ Ῥωμαίους συῒ παρεικαζομένῃ, ἥτις καὶ αὐτὴ διὰ τὸ ὅμοιον μυστικωτέρας, ὥς φασιν, ἠξίωται θεραπείας. Ἐμοίχευσε δὲ Ἄρης τὴν Ἀφροδίτην, καὶ τὴν ἀπ αὐτῶν Ἁρμονίαν Ἄνδρων ὑμῖν κατεσκεύασε. Λήρους καὶ φλυαρίας Σώφρων διὰ συνταγμάτων παραδοὺς ἐνδοξότερος χάριν τῆς χαλκευτικῆς, ἥ μέχρι νῦν ἔστι. Καὶ τὸν ψευδολόγον Αἴσωπον ἀείμνηστον οὐ μόνον τὰ μυθολογήματα ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ κατὰ τὸν Ἀριστόδημον πλαστικὴ περισπούδαστον ἀπέδειξεν. Εἶτα πῶς οὐκ αἰδεῖσθε, τοσαύτας μὲν ἔχοντες ποιητρίας οὐκ ἐπί τι χρήσιμον, πόρνας δὲ ἀπείρους καὶ μοχθηροὺς ἄνδρας, τῶν παρ ἡμῖν γυναικῶν διαβάλλοντες τὴν σεμνότητα; Τί μοι σπουδαῖον μανθάνειν Εὐάνθην ἐν Περιπάτῳ τεκεῖν, καὶ πρὸς τὴν Καλλιστράτου κεχηνέναι τέχνην, καὶ πρὸς τῇ Καλλιάδου Νεαίρᾳ παρέχειν τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς; Ἑταίρα γὰρ ἦν. Λαῒς ἐπόρνευσε, καὶ ὁ Τοῦρνος αὐτὴν ὑπόμνημα τῆς πορνείας ἐποίησεν. Διὰ τί τὴν Ἡφαιστίωνος οὐκ αἰδεῖσθε πορνείαν, καὶ εἰ πάνυ Φίλων αὐτὸν ἐντέχνως ποιεῖ; Τίνος δὲ χάριν διὰ Λεωχάρους Γανυμήδη τὸν ἀνδρόγυνον, ὣς τι σπουδαῖον ἔχοντες κτῆμα, τετιμήκατε; Καὶ σπιλούμενόν τι γύναιον Πραξιτέλης ἐδημιούργησεν. Ἐχρῆν δὲ πᾶν τὸ τοιοῦτον παραιτησαμένους τὸ κατὰ ἀλήθειαν σπουδαῖον ζητεῖν, καὶ μηδὲ Φιλαινίδος μηδὲ Ἐλεφαντίδος τῶν ἀῤῥήτων ἐπινοιῶν ἀντιποιουμένους τὴν ἡμετέραν πολιτείαν βδελύττεσθαι
Very solemn indeed too is the tyrant Phalaris, who, feasting on babes at the breast, is to this day exhibited, through the workmanship of Polystratus of Ambracia, as some admirable man; and the Acragantines were afraid to look upon his aforesaid face on account of his cannibalism, while those who care for culture boast that they behold him through an image. For how is it not grievous that fratricide is honored among you, you who look upon the figures of Polyneices and Eteocles, and have not buried them in a pit together with their maker Pythagoras? Destroy the memorials of wickedness! Why should I, on account of Periclymenus, regard as marvelous and contemplate the statue of a little woman who bore thirty children? For it would have been fine to abominate her who carried off the first-fruits of much incontinence, she who is likened to the Roman sow, which itself too, on account of the resemblance, is deemed worthy, as they say, of a more mystical worship. And Ares committed adultery with Aphrodite, and Andron made for you the Harmonia born from them. Sophron, having handed down nonsense and trifles through his treatises, became more renowned on account of the bronze-working, which exists to this day. And the lying Aesop, not only his fables but also the modeling work after Aristodemus, has rendered ever-memorable and much-sought-after. Then how are you not ashamed, having so many poetesses to no useful purpose, and countless harlots and worthless men, while you slander the dignity of the women among us? What is it earnest for me to learn—that Euanthe gave birth in the Peripatos, and to gape at the art of Callistratus, and to fix my eyes upon Neaera of Callias? For she was a courtesan. Lais played the harlot, and Turnus made her a memorial of fornication. Why are you not ashamed of the fornication of Hephaestion, even if Philon fashions him very artfully? And for what reason have you honored, through Leochares, Ganymede the androgyne, as though possessing some earnest treasure? And Praxiteles fashioned a certain defiled little woman. But it would have been fitting, having renounced everything of this sort, to seek what is truly earnest, and not, while laying claim to the unspeakable inventions of Philaenis and Elephantis, to abominate our way of life.
那暴君法拉里斯倒也「莊嚴」得很，他烹食尚在吃奶的嬰孩，藉安布拉喀亞的波呂斯特拉托斯之手所造之像，至今仍被當作某位可敬之人展示；阿克拉加斯人因他吃人而懼於看他那張前述的臉，而那些講究教養的人卻誇耀自己能藉一座像觀看他。手足相殘竟在你們當中受尊崇，這豈不可悲嗎？你們瞻仰波呂涅刻斯與厄忒俄克勒斯的塑像，卻不曾把它們連同其製作者畢達哥拉斯一同埋進坑裡。把邪惡的紀念物毀掉罷！我何必為著珀里克呂墨諾斯，把一個生了三十個孩子的小婦人之像看為奇妙而去細看呢？其實理當厭惡她——她奪得了極度縱慾的初熟果子，她竟被比作羅馬人的母豬，那母豬本身因相像之故，據說也配享更神祕的崇拜。阿瑞斯與阿芙羅狄忒行了姦淫，安德隆便為你們造了那由他們所生的哈耳摩尼婭。索福隆藉著作傳下了無稽與廢話，卻因那至今尚存的銅工而更負盛名。那說謊的伊索，不僅他的寓言，連那效法阿里斯托得摩斯的塑造之工，都使他永垂記念、廣受追捧。你們有這許多女詩人卻毫無益處，又有無數娼妓與卑劣男子，竟還毀謗我們當中婦女的尊嚴——你們怎不羞愧呢？我去學「歐安忒在逍遙學園生產」，去呆望卡利斯特拉托斯的藝術，去定睛凝視卡利阿斯的涅艾拉，於我有何認真可言呢？因為她不過是個妓女。拉伊斯行了淫，圖耳努斯卻立她作淫亂的紀念。你們為何不以赫菲斯提翁的淫行為恥呢——即便菲隆把他造得極其精巧？你們又為何藉勒俄卡瑞斯尊崇那陰陽人伽倪墨得斯，彷彿擁有什麼可貴的珍寶？普拉克西特利斯還塑造了一個被玷污的小婦人。其實理當摒棄一切這等之事，去尋求那真正嚴肅之事，而不該一面攀附斐萊尼斯與厄勒凡提斯那些不可言說的淫穢構想，一面卻厭惡我們的生活方式。