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But we, that we may do no wrong and commit no impiety, have been taught that to expose newborn children is the act of wicked men; first, because we see that nearly all who are so exposed are brought up to prostitution—not the girls only but also the boys; and just as the ancients are said to have reared herds of oxen or goats or sheep, or horses for breeding, so now men rear children only for shameful use; and likewise a multitude of women and androgynes and those who do unspeakable things stands ready, throughout every nation, for this pollution. And you receive the wages and the dues and the taxes of these, when you ought rather to root them out from your empire. And some of those who use them, in addition to the godless and impious and intemperate intercourse, may, as it happens, have union with a child or a kinsman or a brother. And some prostitute their own children and wives, and some are openly mutilated for unnatural lust and refer the mysteries to the Mother of the gods; and beside every one of those reckoned among you as gods a serpent is depicted as a great symbol and mystery. And the things openly done and honored among you, you charge against us, as though the divine light were overthrown and absent; which, since we are free from doing any of these things, brings no harm to us, but rather to those who do them and bear false witness.