pathics

For Davidson, there is simply no evidence that the Greeks understood penetration as a form of power; moreover, "much of the abuse directed at pathics, ... is clearly attacking excess or readiness, rather than a man's 'loss of virginity' or submission" (21-22).

The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006

All willing pathics, therefore, we consider the vilest of mankind, and credit them with neither fidelity, nor modesty, nor friendship, for as

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

A comely couple of shameless catamites, Mamurra and Caesar, pathics both.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

For its latest developments as regards the chantage of the tantes (pathics), the reader will consult the last issues of Dr. Tardieu's well-known

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

For its latest developments as regards the chantage of the tantes (pathics), the reader will consult the last issues of Dr. Tardieu’s well-known Études. 428 He declares that the servant-class is most infected; and that the Vice is commonest between the ages of fifteen and twenty five.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to me that Wilde’s pleasure and excitement were perhaps increased by the degradation of that group of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics, and I remember, too, his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to me that Wilde’s pleasure and excitement were perhaps increased by the degradation of that group of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics, and I remember, too, his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to me that Wilde’s pleasure and excitement were perhaps increased by the degradation of that group of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics, and I remember, too, his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to me that Wilde’s pleasure and excitement were perhaps increased by the degradation of that group of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics, and I remember, too, his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

He seemed to contemplate a vision that gave him pleasure, and now that I look back, I remember that he once said to me that Wilde’s pleasure and excitement were perhaps increased by the degradation of that group of beggars and blackmailers where he sought his pathics, and I remember, too, his smile at my surprise, as though he spoke of psychological depths I could never enter.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965