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To: ConservativeStatement

is Caligula in the curriculum?

the Nazis?


17 posted on 09/20/2012 7:44:56 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
This guy should be in the curriculum:
"Besides abusing freeborn boys and seducing married women, he debauched the vestal virgin Rubria....He castrated the boy Sporus and actually tried to make a woman of him; and he married him with all the usual ceremonies, including a dowry and a bridal veil, took him to his house attended by a great throng, and treated him as his wife. And the witty jest that someone made is still current, that it would have been well for the world if Nero's father Domitius had had that kind of wife. This Sporus, decked out with the finery of the empresses and riding in a litter, he took with him to the assizes and marts of Greece, and later at Rome through the Street of the Images, fondly kissing him from time to time....

I have heard from some men that it was his unshaken conviction that no man was chaste or pure in any part of his body, but that most of them concealed their vices and cleverly drew a veil over them; and that therefore he pardoned all other faults in those who confessed to him their lewdness." --Suetonius, Life of Nero


25 posted on 09/20/2012 8:48:09 AM PDT by Claud
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