{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020064.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020064.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020064.htm","text":"On this account I reject your legislation also; for there ought to be one common polity for all; but now there are as many different codes as there are states, so that things held disgraceful in some are honourable in others. The Greeks consider intercourse with a mother as unlawful, but this practice is esteemed most becoming by the Persian Magi; p\u00e6derasty is condemned by the Barbarians, but by the Romans, who endeavour to collect herds of boys like grazing horses, it is honoured with certain privileges.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: TATIAN: Chapter XXVIII. Condemnation of the Greek Legislation.","type":"page"}