begging these men.. . to be serious; and reminding







them that it isn't so long ago that it seemed black







and silly to the Greeks-as it does now to the







many among the barbarians-to see men naked; and







that when the Cretans originated the gymnasiums,







and then the Lacedaemonians,it was possible for the







urbane of the time to make a comedyof all that. But, I







suppose, when it becamecle