"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٨‎٩] (٥٨٢/١٢٠)

TO THE FRIENDS OF MY COMPANION.
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the lover especially was blamed if the boy offended, and suffered
what punishment was due to his fault. Plutarch has a story of a
Spartan fined by the magistrates, because the lad whom he loved
cried out effeminately whilst he was fighting. The same love
continued when the boy was come to man's estate; he still pre
served his former intimacy with his lover, imparted to him all his
designs, and was directed by his counsels, as appears from another
of Plutarch's relations concerning Cleomenes, who, before his ad
vancement to the kingdom, was beloved by one Xenares, with
whom he ever after maintained a most intimate friendship, till he
went about his project of new-modelling the commonwealth, which
Xenares not approving, departed from him, but still remained
faithful to him and concealed his designs.
4 If we pass from Sparta to Athens, we shall find that there
Solon forbade slaves to love boys, making that an honourable
action, and, as it were, inviting (these are Plutarch's words) the
worthy to practise what he commanded the unworthy to forbear.
That lawgiver himself is said to have loved Pisistratus, and the
most eminent men in that commonwealth submitted to the same
passion. Socrates, who died a martyr for disowning the pagan
idolatry, is very remarkable for such amours, yet seems not whilst
alive to have incurred the least suspicion of dishonesty; for what
else could be the cause that when Callias, Thrasymachus, Aristo
phanes, Anytus, and Melitus, with the rest of his enemies, accused
him of teaching Critias to tyrannize, for sophistry, for contempt
of the gods, and other crimes, they never so much as upbraided
him with impure love, or for writing or discoursing upon that
subject ? And though some persons, especially in later ages, and
perhaps unacquainted with the practice of the old Grecians, have
called in question that philosopher's virtue in this point, yet both
he and his scholar Plato are sufficiently vindicated from that im
putation by Maximus the Tyrian, to whom I refer the reader.
The innocency of this love may farther appear from their severe
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