is not merely developing individuals who have the qualities that are desired.

不仅仅只是培养拥有一切必须品质的个人
They are interested in developing people, young men

他们更注重在人们
who are so closely intertwined with each other as to be tighter,

在整天一起厮混的年轻人之间
even I would argue, than a family,

打造出一种比家庭更坚固的关系
and one aspect of this was very clearly sexual.

其中的一个方面显然是和性有关的
The typical arrangement was a young teenage boy

通常一个十几岁的男孩
would be associated with an older man,

会和一个年长一些的男人安排在一起
but could be one of the men between the ages of 20 and 30,

可能是一个二十至三十岁的男人
it could be an older man, and they had a formal arrangement.

也可能更老一些他们有一个安排的标准
The older man was what the Greeks called an Erotes,

年长的男人被希腊人称为Erotes
a lover and the boy was the Eromenos and that means the beloved.

即爱人男孩被称为Eromenos 即被爱者
Xenophon who is an Athenian

色诺芬是雅典人