And again, lest any of those exposed should not be taken up but should die, and we become murderers, we either do not marry at all except for the rearing of children, or, declining marriage, we live in complete continence. And already one of our number, in order to persuade you that promiscuous intercourse is no mystery among us, presented a petition in Alexandria to Felix the governor, requesting that permission be given to a physician to remove his testicles; for the physicians there said that it was forbidden to do this without the governor's permission. And when Felix was by no means willing to subscribe to it, the young man, remaining as he was, was content with his own conscience and that of his like-minded companions. And we have thought it not out of place to mention here also Antinous, who lived in our own time, whom all were impelled to revere as a god through fear, although they knew who he was and whence he came.