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course a bastard word. “Homogenic” has been suggested, as being from two roots, both Greek, i.e., “homos,” same, and “genos,” sex.

13

“Athenæus” xiii., ch. 78.

14

See Plutarch’s “Eroticus,” §xvii.

15

See “Natural History of Man,” by J. G. Wood. Vol: “Africa,” p. 419.

16

See also Livingstone’s “Expedition to the Zambesi” (Murray, 1865) p. 148.

17

Though these two plays, except for some quotations, are lost.

18

Mantegazza and Lombroso. See Albert Moll, “Conträre Sexualempfindung,” 2nd ed., p. 36.

19

Though in translation this fact is often by pious fraudulence disguised.

20

W. Pater’s “Renaissance,” pp. 8-16.

21

Among prose writers of this period, Montaigne, whose treatment of the subject is enthusiastic and unequivocal, should not be overlooked. See Hazlitt’s “Montaigne,” ch. xxvii.

22

I may be excused for quoting here the sonnet No. 54, from J. A. Symonds’ translation of the sonnets of Michel Angelo:—

“From thy fair face I learn, O my loved lord,That which no mortal tongue can rightly say:The soul, imprisoned in her house of clay,Holpen by thee to God hath often soared:And though the vulgar, vain, malignant hordeAttribute what their grosser wills obey,Yet shall this fervent homage that I pay,This love, this faith, pure joys for us afford,Lo, all the lovely things we find on earth,Resemble for the soul that rightly sees,That source of bliss divine which gave us birth:Nor have we first-fruits or remembrancesOf heaven elsewhere. Thus, loving loyally,I rise to God, and make death sweet by thee.”

The labours of von Scheffler, followed by J. A. Symonds, have now pretty conclusively established the pious frauds of the nephew, and the fact that the love-poems of the elder Michel Angelo were, for the most part, written to male friends.

23

See an interesting paper in W. Pater’s “Renaissance.”

24

For a fuller collection of instances of this Friendship-love in the history of the world, see “Ioläus: an Anthology,” by E. Carpenter (George Allen, London. 3/– net). Also “Liebling-minne und Freundesliebe in der Welt-literatur,” von Elisar von Kupffer (Adolf Brand, Berlin, 1900).

25

As in the case, for instance, of Tennyson’s “In Memoriam,” for which the poet was soundly rated by the Times at the time of its publication.

26

Jowett’s “Plato,” 2nd ed., vol. ii., p. 30.

27

Jowett, vol. ii., p. 130.