Affectionate regard for boys of good character was permissible, but embracing them was held to be disgraceful, on the ground that the affection was for the body and not for the mind. Any man against whom complaint was made of any disgraceful embracing was deprived of all civic rights for life. Ibid. chap. xviii. (51 d); Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta , 2. 12-14; Aelian, Varia Historia , iii. 10 and 12.