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Polybius, Histories, book 8, Criticism Of Theopompus (search)
hey not possess?
What was there virtuous or of good report that they did not
lack? Some of them, men as they were, were ever clean
shaven and smooth-skinned; and even bearded men did not
shrink from mutual defilement. They took about with them
two or three slaves of their lust, while submitting to the same
shameful service themselves. The men whom they called
companions deserved a grosser name, and the title of soldier
was but a cover to mercenary vice; for, though bloodthirsty
by nature, they were lascivious by habit. In a word, to make
a long story short, especially as I have such a mass of matter
to deal with, I believe that the so-called 'friends' and
'companions' of Philip were more bestial in nature and
character than the Centaurs who lived on Pelion, or the
Laestrygones who inhabited the Leontine plain, or in fact any
other monsters whatever."See also Athenaeus, 4, 166-167. Theopompus of Chius was a contemporary
of Philip II. and Alexander, having been born about B. C. 376-372.