having left behind for the sake of fading beauty and having fallen so far from the heavens to the earth. But the Shechemites also are punished, having fallen down, insulting the holy virgin; their punishment is a tomb, and the memorial of their chastisement instructs toward salvation. 3.3.t.1 To the men who beautify themselves. To such a degree, then, has luxury advanced that not only the female sex is sick with this vanity, but even men emulate the disease. For not being clean of adornment they are not healthy, and inclining toward what is softer they are made effeminate, getting ignoble and whorish haircuts, wrapped in transparent cloaks and chewing mastic, reeking of perfume. 3.3.15.2 What would one say upon seeing them? Simply, like a physiognomist, one divines from their appearance that they are both adulterers and androgynes, hunting after both kinds of love, hating hair, hairless, abominating the flower of manliness, but adorning their hair like women. Living with unholy darings, the perverse commit reckless and evil deeds, 3.3.15.3 says the Sibyl. On their account, at any rate, the cities are full of those who pitch, shave, and pluck these effeminate men; and workshops have been set up and opened everywhere, and craftsmen of this courtesan-like prostitution openly 3.3.15.4 make a great deal of money; to whom they offer themselves in every way to be pitched and to have their hairs plucked, feeling no shame before those who see them or those who pass by, nor even that they themselves are men; for such are the emulators of the more ignoble passions, their whole body having been made smooth by the violent applications of pitch. 3.3.16.1 But it is of no concern at all to proceed further into such shamelessness. For if nothing is left undone by them, nothing is to be left unsaid by me. When Diogenes was being sold, instructively rebuking one of these ignoble men, he said very manfully, "Come here, boy, you have bought a man for yourself," correcting that man's 3.3.16.2 profligacy with an ambiguous saying. For how is it not ignoble for men to shave and smooth themselves? But certain dyes for the hair, and ointments for gray hair, and blondings, the practices of dissolute androgynes, and their effeminate 3.3.16.3 combings, must be abandoned. For they think to slough off old age from the head like a snake, transforming themselves and making themselves young; and even if they shall doctor their hair, yet they will not escape their wrinkles, nor will they escape the notice of death by outwitting time. For it is not terrible, not terrible, for an old man 3.3.16.4 to seem to be what he cannot hide that he is. In proportion as a man hastens toward his end, so much more honorable is he in truth, having only God as his elder, since He also is the eternal old man, the elder of all beings; prophecy has called Him the Ancient of Days, and the hair of His head is like pure wool, says the prophet. And no one else, says the Lord, can make 3.3.17.1 a hair white or black. How then do they create in opposition to God, or rather, how do these godless men strive to oppose Him, falsifying the hair made gray by Him? A crown of old men is much experience, says the scripture, and the gray hair of their face is a flower of much experience; but they put to shame the dignity of age, the gray-haired man. But it is not, it is not possible for one who has a counterfeit head 3.3.17.2 to show a true soul. But you have not so learned Christ, he says, if indeed you have heard Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man, not the gray-haired one, but the one who is being corrupted according to the lusts of deceit; and be renewed, not with dyes and adornments, but in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man who is according to God

καταλελοιπότες διὰ κάλλος μαραινόμενον καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐξ οὐρανῶν ἀποπεσόντες χαμαί. Ἀλλὰ καὶ Σικιμῖται κολάζονται καταπεπτωκότες τὴν ἁγίαν ὑβρίζοντες παρθένον· τάφος ἡ κόλασις αὐτοῖς καὶ τὸ μνημόσυνον τῆς ἐπιτιμίας εἰς σωτηρίαν παιδαγωγεῖ. 3.3.t.1 Πρὸς τοὺς καλλωπιζομένους τῶν ἀνδρῶν. Εἰς τοσοῦτον δὲ ἄρα ἐλήλακεν ἡ χλιδὴ ὡς μὴ τὸ θῆλυ μόνον νοσεῖν περὶ τὴν κενοσπουδίαν ταύτην, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας ζηλοῦν τὴν νόσον. Μὴ γὰρ καθαρεύοντες καλλωπισμοῦ οὐχ ὑγιαίνουσιν, πρὸς δὲ τὸ μαλθακώτερον ἀποκλίναντες γυναικίζονται, κουρὰς μὲν ἀγεννεῖς καὶ πορνικὰς ἀποκειρόμενοι, χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεμμένοι καὶ μαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες μύρου. 3.3.15.2 Τί ἄν τις φαίη τούτους ἰδών; Ἀτεχνῶς καθάπερ μετωποσκόπος ἐκ τοῦ σχήματος αὐτοὺς καταμαντεύεται μοιχούς τε καὶ ἀνδρογύνους, ἀμφοτέραν ἀφροδίτην θηρωμένους, μισότριχας, ἄτριχας, τὸ ἄνθος τὸ ἀνδρικὸν μυσαττομένους, τὰς κόμας δέ, ὥσπερ αἱ γυναῖκες, κοσμουμένους. Ἐπ' οὐχ ὁσίοις δὲ τόλμαις ζῶντες οἱ παλίμβολοι ῥέζουσιν ἀτάσθαλα καὶ κακὰ ἔργα, 3.3.15.3 φησὶν ἡ Σίβυλλα. ∆ιὰ τούτους γοῦν πλήρεις αἱ πόλεις πιττούντων, ξυρούντων, παρατιλλόντων τοὺς θηλυδρίας τούτους· ἐργαστήρια δὲ κατεσκεύασται καὶ ἀνέῳκται πάντῃ καὶ τεχνῖται τῆς ἑταιρικῆς ταύτης πορνείας συχνὸν 3.3.15.4 ἐμπολῶσιν ἀργύριον ἐμφανῶς· οἷς σφᾶς καταπιττοῦσι καὶ τὰς τρίχας ἀνασπῶσι πάντα τρόπον παρέχουσιν, οὐδὲν αἰσχυνόμενοι τοὺς ὁρῶντας οὐδὲ τοὺς παριόντας, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἑαυτοὺς ἄνδρας ὄντας· τοιοῦτοι γὰρ οἱ τῶν ἀγεννεστέρων ζηλωταὶ παθῶν, ἅπαν τὸ σῶμα τοῖς βιαίοις τῆς πίττης ὁλκοῖς λελειουργημένοι. 3.3.16.1 Μέλει δὲ οὐδ' ὁπωστιοῦν περαιτέρω τῆς τοιαύτης προβαίνειν ἀναισχυντίας. Εἰ γὰρ μηδὲν ἄπρακτον αὐτοῖς ὑπολείπεται, οὐδὲ ἐμοὶ ἄρρητον. Ἕνα τινὰ τούτων τῶν ἀγεννῶν παιδαγωγικῶς ἐπιπλήττων ὁ ∆ιογένης ὁπηνίκα ἐπιπράσκετο, ἀνδρείως σφόδρα ἧκε εἶπεν, μειράκιον, ἄνδρα ὤνησαι σαυτῷ, ἀμφιβόλῳ λόγῳ τὸ πορνικὸν 3.3.16.2 ἐκείνου σωφρονίζων. Τὸ γὰρ ἄνδρας ὄντας ξύρεσθαι καὶ λεαίνεσθαι πῶς οὐκ ἀγεννές; Βαφὰς δέ τινας τριχῶν καὶ χρίσματα πολιῶν καὶ ξανθίσματα, ἀνδρογύνων ἐξωλῶν ἐπιτηδεύματα, καὶ τοὺς διακτενισμοὺς αὐτῶν τοὺς θηλυ3.3.16.3 δριώδεις μεθετέον. Ἡγοῦνται γὰρ καθάπερ ὄφις τῆς κεφαλῆς ἀπεκδύσασθαι τὸ γῆρας μεταγράφοντες ἑαυτοὺς καὶ νεοποιοῦντες· εἰ καὶ σοφίσονται τὰς τρίχας, ἀλλ' οὐ τὰς ῥυτίδας διαφεύξονται, ἀλλ' οὐ λήσονται τὸν θάνατον σοφιζόμενοι τὸν χρόνον. Οὐ γὰρ δεινόν, οὐ δεινὸν γέροντα 3.3.16.4 δοκεῖν τὸ εἶναι λαθεῖν μὴ δυνάμενον. Ὅσῳ γοῦν ὁ ἄνθρωπος σπεύδει πρὸς τέλος, τοσούτῳ τιμιώτερος πρὸς ἀλήθειαν, μόνον ἔχων αὑτοῦ πρεσβύτερον τὸν θεόν, ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖνος ἀίδιος γέρων ὁ τῶν ὄντων πρεσβύτερος· παλαιὸν ἡμερῶν κέκληκεν αὐτὸν ἡ προφητεία, καὶ ἡ θρὶξ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ ἔριον καθαρόν, ὁ προφήτης λέγει. Οὐδεὶς δὲ ἄλλος, φησὶν ὁ κύριος, δύναται ποιῆσαι 3.3.17.1 τρίχα λευκὴν ἢ μέλαιναν. Πῶς οὖν ἀντιδημιουργοῦσι τῷ θεῷ, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀντικεῖσθαι βιάζονται οἱ ἄθεοι τὴν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ πεπολιωμένην παραχαράττοντες τρίχα; Στέφανος δὲ γερόντων πολυπειρία, φησὶν ἡ γραφή, καὶ τοῦ προσώπου αὐτῶν ἡ πολιὰ ἄνθος πολυπειρίας· οἳ δὲ τὸ πρεσβεῖον τῆς ἡλικίας, τὸν πολιέα, καταισχύνουσιν. Οὐκ ἔστιν δέ, οὐκ ἔστιν ἀληθινὴν ἐνδεικνύναι τὴν ψυχὴν 3.3.17.2 τὸν κίβδηλον ἔχοντα κεφαλήν. Ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐχ οὕτως, φησίν, ἐμάθετε τὸν Χριστόν, εἴ γε αὐτὸν ἠκούσατε καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ἐδιδάχθητε, καθώς ἐστιν ἀλήθεια ἐν τῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον, οὐ τὸν πολιόν, ἀλλὰ τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης· ἀνανεοῦσθαι δέ, μὴ βαφαῖς καὶ καλλωπίσμασιν, ἀλλὰ τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ νοὸς ὑμῶν καὶ ἐνδύσασθαι τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν κατὰ θεὸν