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To: alloysteel
According to Suetonius, Nero went through with a same-sex marriage.

"He had the testicles cut off of a boy named Sporus, and attempted to transform him into a woman, marrying him with dowry and bridal veil and all due ceremony, then, accompanied by a great crowd, taking him to his house, where he treated him as his wife. Someone made the rather clever joke which is still told that it would have been a good thing for humanity if Nero's father had taken such a wife. This Sporus, decked out in the ornaments of an empress and carried in a litter, he took with him around the meeting places and markets of Greece and later, at Rome, around the Sigillaria, kissing him from time to time." (Nero, ch. 28. Trans. by Catharine Edwards, Oxford World's Classics)

Even the Romans in their most decadent period thought that was preposterous.

8 posted on 02/14/2014 4:42:33 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
***Even the Romans in their most decadent period thought that was preposterous. **

And in film...Ain't "she" cute? >/P>

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16 posted on 02/14/2014 5:25:59 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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I wonder if poor Sporus was a willing participant in all of this. Nero, what a role model!


19 posted on 02/14/2014 6:06:43 PM PST by crazycatlady
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To: Verginius Rufus

Galatians 5:12


127 posted on 02/15/2014 3:32:08 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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