from Discourse 3.1.24-50 of Epictetus as in Arrian's lecture notes, circa 100 A.D.

"Young man, whom do you wish to beautify?
Learn first who you are and trick yourself out in this way.
You are a human; that is, a mortal animal life-form;
one that knows how to deal with mental impressions [phenomena] by means of
logical reasoning. but what is [the meaning of that]'by logical reasoning'?
It is [the process of] considering the nature of phenomena [mental impressions] and judging them in the manner of an absolute monarch.
So then, what excellency do you possess? Your life? Not so special.
Your mortality? Not so special. Knowing how to deal with mental
impressions? Not so special. It is your logical reasoning that is
your excellent quality. Refine and embellish that but leave your
hair to Him who made it as He wanted. Come on now; what other
appellations do you have? Are you man or woman? A man. eh. So groom
yourself as a man, not as a woman. This feminine prize is born to be
delicate in her nature and if she has much body hair, is a monster,
and is exhibited with the freaks in Rome. But it is the same [sort
of monstrosity] for a man not to have it, and if it is in his nature not
to have it, he is a monster; but if he should shave his body hair off himself or
should pluck it out, what would we make of him? Where should we
exhibit him? What kind of circus poster should we design for his
show? "I shall show you a man who wishes to be a woman rather than a
man."? What a dire spectacle! There is no one at all who will not
be amazed at the notice. By the Great Spirit, I suppose that even
the fellows who pluck out their own body hairs do what they do
without realizing what it means. Hey man, why are you indicting your
own nature? Because it made you a man? Why then? Is it necessary
that it make everybody women? And what would be the advantage then
of prettifying yourself? For whom would you be tricking yourself out
if all humans were women? This little creation [i.e., your body]
doesn't please you? Then make yourself into a woman outright.
Why ever do that? [To get at] the root of your hairyness.
Make yourself a woman in all respects, so that we may not [longer] be deluded;
not [this affair of] on the one hand, half a man, but on the other, half a woman. Whom do you wish to please? Dainty little women?
Then please them as a masculine man.
"Yes, but they delight in smooth-skinned, beardless lads."
Don't blow me away!
So if they were delighting in lewd *catamites, would you become a lewd catamite?
Is this the work for which you were born?
That licentious women should be delighted with you?
-- tr. by nekkid, Eve of Memorial Day, 2008


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effeminacy
-explicates kinaidos*
(Latin kinaedus)