[7,9] Γενεὰν δὲ τῶν πεφονευμένων τὴν ἄρρενα κατ´ ἀρχὰς ἐν οὐθενὶ λόγῳ ποιησάμενος, ὕστερον εἴτ´ ἐκ θεοπροπίου τινὸς εἴτε καὶ κατὰ τὸν εἰκότα λογισμὸν οὐ μικρὸν αὐτῷ δέος ὑποτρέφεσθαι νομίσας ἐπεχείρησε μὲν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ πᾶσαν ἀπολέσαι· δεήσει δὲ πολλῇ χρησαμένων ἁπάντων, παρ´ οἷς ἔτυχον αἵ τε μητέρες αὐτῶν οὖσαι καὶ οἱ παῖδες τρεφόμενοι, χαρίσασθαι βουλόμενος αὐτοῖς καὶ ταύτην τὴν δωρεὰν θανάτου μὲν ἀπολύει παρὰ γνώμην, φυλακὴν δὲ ποιούμενος αὐτῶν, μή τι συστάντες μετ´ ἀλλήλων βουλεύσωσι κατὰ τῆς τυραννίδος, ἀπιέναι πάντας ἐκέλευσεν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἄλλον ἄλλῃ καὶ δίαιταν ἔχειν ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς μηθενὸς τῶν προσηκόντων ἐλευθέροις παισὶ μήτ´ ἐπιτηδεύματος μήτε μαθήματος μεταλαμβάνοντας, ἀλλὰ ποιμαίνοντάς τε καὶ τἆλλα τὰ κατὰ τοὺς ἀγροὺς ἔργα πράττοντας, θάνατον ἀπειλήσας, εἴ τις ἐξ αὐτῶν εὑρεθείη παρελθὼν εἰς τὴν πόλιν. οἱ δὲ καταλιπόντες τὰς πατρῴας ἑστίας ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς ὥσπερ δοῦλοι διετρέφοντο τοῖς ἀποκτείνασι τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν λατρεύοντες. ἵνα δὲ μηδὲ τῶν ἄλλων πολιτῶν ἐν μηθενὶ γένηται μήτε γενναῖον μήτ´ ἀνδρῶδες φρόνημα, πᾶσαν ἐκθηλῦναι ταῖς ἀγωγαῖς τὴν ἐπιτρεφομένην νεότητα τῆς πόλεως ἐπεβάλετο ἀνελὼν μὲν τὰ γυμνάσια καὶ τὰς ἐνοπλίους μελέτας, ἀλλάξας δὲ τὴν δίαιταν, ᾗ πρότερον οἱ παῖδες ἐχρῶντο. κομᾶν τε γὰρ τοὺς ἄρρενας ὥσπερ τὰς παρθένους ἐκέλευσεν ἐξανθιζομένους καὶ βοστρυχιζομένους καὶ κεκρυφάλοις τὰς πλοκαμίδας ἀναδοῦντας ἐνδύεσθαί τε ποικίλους καὶ ποδήρεις χιτωνίσκους, καὶ χλανιδίοις ἀμπέχεσθαι λεπτοῖς καὶ μαλακοῖς, καὶ δίαιταν ἔχειν ὑπὸ σκιαῖς· ἠκολούθουν τ´ αὐτοῖς εἰς τὰ διδασκαλεῖα τῶν ὀρχηστῶν καὶ αὐλητῶν καὶ τῶν παραπλησίων τούτοις μουσοκολάκων παραπορευόμεναι παιδαγωγοὶ γυναῖκες σκιάδεια καὶ ῥιπίδας κομίζουσαι, καὶ ἔλουον αὐτοὺς αὗται κτένας εἰς τὰ βαλανεῖα φέρουσαι καὶ μύρων ἀλαβάστρους καὶ κάτοπτρα. τοιαύτῃ διαφθείρων ἀγωγῇ τοὺς παῖδας, ἕως ἐκπληρώσωσιν εἰκοστὸν ἔτος, τὸν ἀπὸ τοῦδε χρόνον εἰς ἄνδρας εἴα τελεῖν. πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα Κυμαίοις ἐνυβρίσας καὶ λωβησάμενος καὶ οὔτ´ ἀσελγείας οὔτ´ ὠμότητος οὐδεμιᾶς ἀποσχόμενος, ὅτ´ ἀσφαλῶς κατέχειν ὑπελάμβανε τὴν τυραννίδα, γηραιὸς ὢν ἤδη δίκας ἔτισεν οὐ μεμπτὰς θεοῖς τε καὶ ἀνθρώποις πρόρριζος ἀπολόμενος.

[7,9] At first he paid no attention to the male children of those who had been put to death, but afterwards, either at the direction of some oracle or influenced also by the reflection he any naturally make, that in them no small danger was being secretly reared up against him, he resolved to destroy them all in one day. But at the earnest entreaties of all the men with whom the children's mothers were living and the children themselves were being brought up, since he wished to grant them this favour also, he saved them from death, contrary to his intention. Taking precautions, however, against them, lest they should combine together and conspire against his tyranny, he ordered them all to depart from the city and to live in the country dispersed here and there, receiving instruction in no profession or branch of learning becoming to the children of freemen, but tending flocks and performing the other labours of the husbandmen; and he threatened with death anyone of them who should be found in the city. These children, accordingly, forsaking the houses of their fathers, were brought up in the country like slaves, serving the murderers of their fathers. And to the end that no noble or manly spirit might spring up in any of the rest of the citizens, he resolved to make effeminate by means of their upbringing all the youths who were being reared in the city, and with that view he suppressed the gymnasiums and the practice of arms and changed the manner of life previously followed by the children. For he ordered the boys to wear their hair long like the girls, to (p173) adorn it with flowers, to keep it curled and to bind up the tresses with hair-nets, to wear embroidered robes that reached down to their feet, and, over these, thin and soft mantles, and to pass their lives in the shade. And when they went to the schools kept by dancing-masters, flute-players and others who, like these, pay court to the Muses, their governesses attended them, taking along parasols and fans; and these women bathed them, carrying into the baths combs, alabaster pots filled with perfumes, and looking-glasses. By such training he continued to enervate the youth till they had completed their twentieth year, and from that time permitted them to be considered as men. Having by these and many other methods abused and insulted the Cumaeans without refraining from any kind of lust or cruelty, when he thought himself secure in the possession of the tyranny, being now grown old, he was punished to the satisfaction of both gods and men and extirpated with all his family.