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href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE" title="প্রাচীন রোমে সমকামিতা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="প্রাচীন রোমে সমকামিতা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexualitat_a_l%27antiga_Roma" title="Homosexualitat a l'antiga Roma – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Homosexualitat a l'antiga Roma" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexualit%C3%A4t_im_R%C3%B6mischen_Reich" title="Homosexualität im Römischen Reich – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Homosexualität im Römischen Reich" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexualidad_en_la_Antigua_Roma" title="Homosexualidad en la Antigua Roma – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Homosexualidad en la Antigua Roma" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="همجنس‌گرایی در روم باستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="همجنس‌گرایی در روم باستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Sousse_mosaic_Ganymede.JPG/287px-Sousse_mosaic_Ganymede.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Sousse_mosaic_Ganymede.JPG/382px-Sousse_mosaic_Ganymede.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3016" data-file-height="2728" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">(left) Busts of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a> (left) and his male lover <a href="/wiki/Antinous" title="Antinous">Antinous</a>, now at the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> (right) Roman <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> from <a href="/wiki/Susa,_Libya" title="Susa, Libya">Susa, Libya</a>, depicting the myth of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> in the form of an eagle abducting the boy <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)"> Ganymede</a></div></div></div></div> Homosexuality in ancient Rome <a href="/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality" title="Societal attitudes toward homosexuality">differed markedly</a> from the contemporary <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" title="Western culture">West</a>. <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> lacks words that would precisely <a href="/wiki/Translation" title="Translation">translate</a> "<a href="/wiki/Homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexual">homosexual</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Heterosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterosexual">heterosexual</a>".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The primary dichotomy of <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">ancient Roman sexuality</a> was active / <a href="/wiki/Dominance_and_submission" title="Dominance and submission">dominant</a> / masculine and passive / <a href="/wiki/Dominance_and_submission" title="Dominance and submission">submissive</a> / feminine. Roman society was <a href="/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy">patriarchal</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Ingenui" title="Ingenui">freeborn</a> male <a href="/wiki/Roman_citizenship" title="Roman citizenship">citizen</a> possessed political liberty (libertas) and the right to rule both himself and his household (<a href="/wiki/Paterfamilias" class="mw-redirect" title="Paterfamilias">familia</a>). "Virtue" (<a href="/wiki/Virtus_(virtue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtus (virtue)">virtus</a>) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status</a> as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" title="Slavery in ancient Rome">slaves</a> and former slaves, <a href="/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome" title="Prostitution in ancient Rome">prostitutes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment">entertainers</a>, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of <a href="/wiki/Infamia" title="Infamia">infamia</a>, so they were excluded from the normal protections afforded to a citizen even if they were technically free. <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Sexuality_and_children" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Freeborn male minors</a> were off limits at certain periods in Rome. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:024MAD_Antinous.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/024MAD_Antinous.jpg/170px-024MAD_Antinous.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/024MAD_Antinous.jpg/255px-024MAD_Antinous.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/024MAD_Antinous.jpg/340px-024MAD_Antinous.jpg 2x" data-file-width="580" data-file-height="990" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Antinous_(Delphi)" title="Statue of Antinous (Delphi)">Statue of Antinous (Delphi)</a>, polychrome <a href="/wiki/Parian_marble" title="Parian marble">Parian marble</a> depicting <a href="/wiki/Antinous" title="Antinous">Antinous</a>, made during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a> (r. 117–138 AD), his lover</figcaption></figure> Same-sex relations among women are far less documented<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> and, if Roman writers are to be trusted, female <a href="/wiki/Homoeroticism" title="Homoeroticism">homoeroticism</a> may have been very rare, to the point that <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, in the Augustine era describes it as "unheard-of".<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> However, there is scattered evidence—for example, a couple of spells in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">Greek Magical Papyri</a>—which attests to the existence of individual women in Roman-ruled provinces in the later <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Imperial period</a> who fell in love with members of the same sex.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview">edit</a>]</div> During the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Republic</a>, a Roman citizen's political liberty (libertas) was defined in part by the right to preserve his body from physical compulsion, including both corporal punishment and sexual abuse.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Roman society was <a href="/wiki/Patriarchy" title="Patriarchy">patriarchal</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Paterfamilias" class="mw-redirect" title="Paterfamilias">paterfamilias</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Masculinity" title="Masculinity">masculinity</a> was premised on a capacity for governing oneself and others of lower status.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <a href="/wiki/Virtus_(virtue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtus (virtue)">Virtus</a>, "valor" as that which made a man most fully a man, was among the active virtues.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> Sexual conquest was a common metaphor for <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a> in Roman discourse,<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> and the "<a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Sex_and_imperialism" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">conquest mentality</a>" was part of a "cult of virility" that particularly shaped Roman homosexual practices.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Roman ideals of masculinity were thus premised on taking an active role that was also, as Craig A. Williams has noted, "the prime directive of masculine sexual behavior for Romans".<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars have tended to view expressions of Roman <a href="/wiki/Male_sexuality" class="mw-redirect" title="Male sexuality">male sexuality</a> in terms of a "penetrator-penetrated" <a href="/wiki/Binary_opposition" title="Binary opposition">binary model</a>; that is, the proper way for a Roman male to seek sexual gratification was to insert his penis into his partner.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Allowing himself to be penetrated threatened his liberty as a free citizen as well as his sexual integrity.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:392px;max-width:392px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage" style="border:none;;height:137px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Drawing_(BM_2010,5006.570).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg/220px-Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg/330px-Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg/440px-Drawing_%28BM_2010%2C5006.570%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1574" data-file-height="984" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">A drawing based on a fragment of an ancient Roman glass vessel. 1826 - 1827 British Museum, London</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:166px;max-width:166px"><div class="thumbimage" style="border:none;;height:137px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg/164px-Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="164" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg/246px-Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg/328px-Fragment_of_an_open_vessel_-_Glass_-_1_of_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="2101" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">A fragment of a glass vessel showing a homosexual scene. Cameo. Around 15 BCE - 1st Century CE. British Museum, London</div></div></div></div></div> It was socially acceptable for a freeborn Roman man to want sex with both female and male partners, as long as he took the penetrative role.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> The morality of the behavior depended on the social standing of the partner, not gender per se. Both women and young men were considered normal objects of desire, but outside marriage a man was supposed to act on his desires with only slaves, prostitutes (who were often slaves), and the <a href="/wiki/Infamia" title="Infamia">infames</a>. Gender did not determine whether a sexual partner was acceptable, as long as a man's enjoyment did not encroach on another man's integrity. It was immoral to have sex with another freeborn man's wife, his marriageable daughter, his underage son, or with the man himself; sexual use of another man's slave was subject to the owner's permission. Lack of self-control, including in managing one's <a href="/wiki/Sex_life" title="Sex life">sex life</a>, indicated that a man was incapable of governing others; too much indulgence in "low sensual pleasure" threatened to erode the elite male's identity as a cultured person.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arezzo,_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche,_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._(arezzo,_museo_archeologico)_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg/180px-Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg/270px-Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg/360px-Arezzo%2C_coppe_in_terra_sigillata_con_scene_erotiche%2C_I_secolo_ac.-I_dc_ca._%28arezzo%2C_museo_archeologico%29_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4398" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Arretine earthenware with an erotic scene. Artist Unknown. 1st century CE</figcaption></figure> Homoerotic themes are introduced to <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> during a period of increasing <a href="/wiki/Hellenization" title="Hellenization">Greek influence</a> on <a href="/wiki/Roman_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman culture">Roman culture</a> in the 2nd century BC. <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece" title="Homosexuality in ancient Greece">Greek cultural attitudes</a> differed from those of the Romans primarily in idealizing <a href="/wiki/Eros_(concept)" title="Eros (concept)">eros</a> between freeborn male citizens of equal status, though usually with a difference of age (see "<a href="/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece" title="Pederasty in ancient Greece">Pederasty in ancient Greece</a>"). An attachment to a male outside the family, seen as a positive influence among the Greeks, within Roman society threatened the authority of the paterfamilias.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Since Roman women were active in educating their sons and mingled with men socially, and women of the governing classes often continued to advise and influence their sons and husbands in political life, <a href="/wiki/Homosociality" title="Homosociality">homosociality</a> was not as pervasive in Rome as it had been in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">Classical Athens</a>, where it is thought to have contributed to the particulars of pederastic culture.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> In the Imperial era, a perceived increase in passive homosexual behavior among free males was associated with anxieties about the subordination of political liberty to the emperor, and led to an increase in executions and corporal punishment.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> The sexual license and decadence under the empire was seen as a contributing factor and symptom of the loss of the ideals of physical integrity (libertas) under the Republic.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Homoerotic_literature_and_art">Homoerotic literature and art</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Homoerotic literature and art">edit</a>]</div> Love or desire between males is a very frequent theme in Roman literature. In the estimation of <a href="/wiki/Amy_Richlin" title="Amy Richlin">Amy Richlin</a>, out of the poems preserved to this day, those addressed by men to boys are as common as those addressed to women.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Among the works of Roman literature that can be read today, those of <a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a> are the earliest to survive in full to modernity, and also the first to mention homosexuality. Their use to draw conclusions about Roman customs or morals, however, is controversial because these works are all based on Greek originals. However, Craig A. Williams defends such use of the works of Plautus. He notes that the homo- and heterosexual exploitation of slaves, to which there are so many references in Plautus' works, is rarely mentioned in Greek New Comedy, and that many of the puns that make such a reference (and Plautus' oeuvre, being comic, is full of them) are only possible in Latin, and can not therefore have been mere translations from the Greek.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg/170px-Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg/255px-Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg/340px-Nisos_Euryalos_Louvre_LL450_n2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="3333" /></a><figcaption>Heroic portrayal of <a href="/wiki/Nisus_and_Euryalus" title="Nisus and Euryalus">Nisus and Euryalus</a> (1827) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Roman" title="Jean-Baptiste Roman">Jean-Baptiste Roman</a>: Vergil described their love as pius in keeping with Roman morality</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Lutatius_Catulus" class="mw-redirect" title="Quintus Lutatius Catulus">Quintus Lutatius Catulus</a> was among a circle of poets who made short, light <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic poetry">Hellenistic poems</a> fashionable. One of his few surviving fragments is a poem of desire addressed to a male with a Greek name.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In the view of <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacMullen" title="Ramsay MacMullen">Ramsay MacMullen</a>, who is of the opinion that, before the flood of Greek influence, the Romans were against the practice of homosexuality, the elevation of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature" title="Ancient Greek literature">Greek literature</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_art" title="Ancient Greek art">art</a> as models of expression promoted the celebration of homoeroticism as the mark of an urbane and sophisticated person.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> The opposite view is sustained by Craig Williams, who is critical of Macmullen's discussion on Roman attitudes toward homosexuality:<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> he draws attention to the fact that Roman writers of love poetry gave their beloveds Greek pseudonyms no matter the sex of the beloved. Thus, the use of Greek names in homoerotic Roman poems does not mean that the Romans attributed a Greek origin to their homosexual practices or that homosexual love only appeared as a subject of poetic celebration among the Romans under the influence of the Greeks.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> References to homosexual desire or practice, in fact, also appear in Roman authors who wrote in literary styles seen as originally Roman, that is, where the influence of Greek fashions or styles is less likely. In an <a href="/wiki/Atellan_farce" class="mw-redirect" title="Atellan farce">Atellan farce</a> authored by <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Novius" title="Quintus Novius">Quintus Novius</a> (a literary style seen as originally Roman), it is said by one of the characters that "everyone knows that a boy is superior to a woman"; the character goes on to list physical attributes, most of which denoting the onset of puberty, that mark boys when they are at their most attractive in the character's view.<a href="#cite_note-w23-25">[25]</a> Also remarked elsewhere in Novius' fragments is that the sexual use of boys ceases after "their butts become hairy".<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> A preference for smooth male bodies over hairy ones is also avowed elsewhere in Roman literature (e.g., in Ode 4.10 by Horace and in some epigrams by <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> or in the <a href="/wiki/Priapeia" title="Priapeia">Priapeia</a>), and was likely shared by most Roman men of the time.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In a work of satires, another literary genre that Romans saw as their own,<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Lucilius" title="Gaius Lucilius">Gaius Lucilius</a>, a second-century BC poet, draws comparisons between anal sex with boys and vaginal sex with females; it is speculated that he may have written a whole chapter in one of his books with comparisons between lovers of both sexes, though nothing can be stated with certainty as what remains of his oeuvre are just fragments.<a href="#cite_note-w23-25">[25]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Martialis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Martialis.jpg/150px-Martialis.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Martialis.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="225" data-file-height="281" /></a><figcaption>Poets like <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> (above) and <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a> enthused about the love of boys, but were hostile to homosexually passive adult men.</figcaption></figure> In other satire, as well as in Martial's erotic and invective epigrams, at times boys' superiority over women is remarked (for example, in <a href="/wiki/Satire_6" class="mw-redirect" title="Satire 6">Juvenal 6</a>). Other works in the genre (e.g., Juvenal 2 and 9, and one of Martial's satires) also give the impression that passive homosexuality was becoming a fad increasingly popular among Roman men of the first century AD, something which is the target of invective from the authors of the satires.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> The practice itself, however, was perhaps not new, as over a hundred years before these authors, the dramatist <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Pomponius" title="Lucius Pomponius">Lucius Pomponius</a> wrote a play, Prostibulum (The Prostitute), which today only exists in fragments, where the main character, a male prostitute, proclaims that he has sex with male clients also in the active position.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> "<a href="/wiki/Neoteric" title="Neoteric">New poetry</a>" introduced at the end of the 2nd century included that of <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Valerius_Catullus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Valerius Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a>, whose work include expressing desire for a freeborn youth explicitly named "Youth" (Iuventius).<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The Latin name and freeborn status of the beloved subvert Roman tradition.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Catullus's contemporary <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a> also recognizes the attraction of "boys"<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> (<a href="#Puer">pueri</a>, which can designate an acceptable submissive partner and not specifically age<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a>). Homoerotic themes occur throughout the works of <a href="/wiki/Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)" title="Augustan literature (ancient Rome)">poets writing during the reign of Augustus</a>, including elegies by <a href="/wiki/Tibullus" title="Tibullus">Tibullus</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a>,<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> several <a href="/wiki/Eclogues" title="Eclogues">Eclogues</a> of <a href="/wiki/Vergil" class="mw-redirect" title="Vergil">Vergil</a>, especially the second, and some poems by <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a>, Vergil—who, according to a biography written by <a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a>, had a marked sexual preference for boys<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a>—draws on the <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece" title="Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece">Greek tradition of pederasty in a military setting</a> by portraying the love between <a href="/wiki/Nisus_and_Euryalus" title="Nisus and Euryalus">Nisus and Euryalus</a>,<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> whose military valor marks them as solidly Roman men (viri).<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> Vergil describes their love as pius, linking it to the supreme virtue of <a href="/wiki/Pietas" title="Pietas">pietas</a> as possessed by the hero <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a> himself, and endorsing it as "honorable, dignified and connected to central Roman values".<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> By the end of the Augustan period <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, Rome's leading literary figure, was alone among Roman figures in proposing a radically new agenda focused on love between men and women: making love with a woman is more enjoyable, he says, because unlike the forms of same-sex behavior permissible within Roman culture, the pleasure is mutual.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Even Ovid himself, however, did not claim exclusive heterosexuality<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> and he does include mythological treatments of homoeroticism in the <a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a>,<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> but <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Habinek" title="Thomas Habinek">Thomas Habinek</a> has pointed out that the significance of Ovid's rupture of human erotics into categorical preferences has been obscured in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_sexuality" class="mw-redirect" title="History of sexuality">history of sexuality</a> by a later heterosexual bias in Western culture.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Several other Roman writers, however, expressed a bias in favor of males when sex or companionship with males and females were compared, including <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Straton_of_Sardis" title="Straton of Sardis">Strato</a>,<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> and the poet <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, who often derided women as sexual partners and celebrated the charms of pueri.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> In literature of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Imperial period</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Satyricon" title="Satyricon">Satyricon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a> is so permeated with the culture of male–male sex that in 18th-century European literary circles, his name became "a byword for homosexuality".<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sex,_art,_and_everyday_objects">Sex, art, and everyday objects</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sex, art, and everyday objects">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Relief_-_3a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Relief_-_3a.jpg/180px-Relief_-_3a.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Relief_-_3a.jpg/270px-Relief_-_3a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Relief_-_3a.jpg/360px-Relief_-_3a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2859" /></a><figcaption>Sex between two females and two males.<a href="#cite_note-Clarke1998-49">[49]</a> On the right are two females and the figure furthest to the right has raised their legs around the person next to them.<a href="#cite_note-Clarke1998-49">[49]</a> On the left is anal sex between two males.<a href="#cite_note-Clarke1998-49">[49]</a>Fragment of a terracotta vessel. Stamped with the name Vitalis. 65 - 80 CE. Vorarlberg museum, Austria</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum" title="Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum">Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum</a></div> Homosexuality appears with much less frequency in the visual art of Rome than in its literature.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Out of several hundred objects depicting images of sexual contact—from wall paintings and oil lamps to vessels of various types of material—only a small minority exhibits acts between males, and even fewer among females.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Male homosexuality occasionally appears on vessels of numerous kinds, from cups and bottles made of expensive material such as silver and <a href="/wiki/Cameo_glass" title="Cameo glass">cameo glass</a> to mass-produced and low-cost bowls made of <a href="/wiki/Terra_sigillata#Arretine_ware" title="Terra sigillata">Arretine pottery</a>. This may be evidence that sexual relations between males had the acceptance not only of the elite, but was also openly celebrated or indulged in by the less illustrious,<a href="#cite_note-clarke514-52">[52]</a> as suggested also by ancient graffiti.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> When whole objects rather than mere fragments are unearthed, homoerotic scenes are usually found to share space with pictures of opposite-sex couples, which can be interpreted to mean that heterosexuality and homosexuality (or male homosexuality, in any case) are of equal value.<a href="#cite_note-clarke514-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-skin369-54">[54]</a> The Warren Cup (discussed below) is an exception among homoerotic objects: it shows only male couples and may have been produced in order to celebrate a world of exclusive homosexuality.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> The treatment given to the subject in such vessels is idealized and romantic, similar to that dispensed to heterosexuality. The artist's emphasis, regardless of the sex of the couple being depicted, lies in the mutual affection between the partners and the beauty of their bodies.<a href="#cite_note-clarke78-56">[56]</a> Such a trend distinguishes Roman homoerotic art from that of the Greeks.<a href="#cite_note-skin369-54">[54]</a> With some exceptions, Greek vase painting attributes desire and pleasure only to the active partner of homosexual encounters, the erastes, while the passive, or eromenos, seems physically unaroused and, at times, emotionally distant. It is now believed that this may be an artistic convention provoked by reluctance on the part of the Greeks to openly acknowledge that Greek males could enjoy taking on a "female" role in an erotic relationship;<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> reputation for such pleasure could have consequences to the future image of the former eromenos when he turned into an adult, and hinder his ability to participate in the socio-political life of the <a href="/wiki/Polis" title="Polis">polis</a> as a respectable citizen.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> Because, among the Romans, normative homosexuality took place, not between freeborn males or social equals as among the Greeks, but between master and slave, client and prostitute or, in any case, between social superior and social inferior, Roman artists may paradoxically have felt more at ease than their Greek colleagues to portray mutual affection and desire between male couples.<a href="#cite_note-clarke78-56">[56]</a> This may also explain why anal penetration is seen more often in Roman homoerotic art than in its Greek counterpart, where <a href="/wiki/Intercrural_sex" title="Intercrural sex">non-penetrative intercourse</a> predominates.<a href="#cite_note-clarke78-56">[56]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terme_di_porta_marina,_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio,_05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg/220px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg/330px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg/440px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2884" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Threesome from the Suburban Baths in Pompeii, depicting a sexual scenario as described also by <a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a>, Carmen 56</figcaption></figure> A wealth of wall paintings of a sexual nature have been spotted in ruins of some Roman cities, notably <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, where there were found the only examples known so far of Roman art depicting sexual congress between women. A <a href="/wiki/Frieze" title="Frieze">frieze</a> at a brothel annexed to the <a href="/wiki/Suburban_Baths_(Pompeii)" title="Suburban Baths (Pompeii)">Suburban Baths</a>,<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> in Pompeii, shows a series of sixteen sex scenes, three of which display homoerotic acts: a bisexual <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Group_sex" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">threesome</a> with two men and a woman, intercourse by a female couple using a strap-on, and a foursome with two men and two women participating in homosexual anal sex, heterosexual <a href="/wiki/Fellatio" title="Fellatio">fellatio</a>, and homosexual <a href="/wiki/Cunnilingus" title="Cunnilingus">cunnilingus</a>. <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terme_di_porta_marina,_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio,_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg/180px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg/270px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg/360px-Terme_di_porta_marina%2C_affreschi_a_tema_erotico_nello_spogliatoio%2C_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Cunnilingus, fellatio and anal sex between two females and two males - mural. Suburban baths, Pompeii</figcaption></figure> Contrary to the art of the vessels discussed above, all sixteen images on the mural portray sexual acts considered unusual or debased according to Roman customs: e.g., female sexual domination of men, heterosexual oral sex, passive homosexuality by an adult man, lesbianism, and group sex. Therefore, their portrayal may have been intended to provide a source of ribald humor rather than sexual titillation to visitors of the building.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> <a href="/wiki/Threesome" title="Threesome">Threesomes</a> in Roman art typically show two men penetrating a woman, but one of the Suburban scenes has one man entering a woman from the rear while he in turn receives anal sex from a man standing behind him. This scenario is described also by Catullus, Carmen 56, who considers it humorous.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> The man in the center may be a <a href="#Cinaedus">cinaedus</a>, a male who liked to receive anal sex but who was also considered seductive to women.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <a href="/wiki/Foursome_(group_sex)" title="Foursome (group sex)">Foursomes</a> also appear in Roman art, typically with two men and two women, sometimes in same-sex pairings.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Male_nudity" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Roman attitudes toward male nudity</a> differ from those of the ancient Greeks, who regarded idealized portrayals of the nude male. The wearing of the <a href="/wiki/Toga" title="Toga">toga</a> marked a Roman man as a free citizen.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Negative connotations of nudity include defeat in war, since captives were stripped, and slavery, since slaves for sale were often displayed naked.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg/180px-Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg/270px-Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg/360px-Amulettes_phalliques_gallo-romaines_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Remi_120208.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1984" data-file-height="1377" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman_culture" title="Gallo-Roman culture">Gallo-Roman</a> bronze examples of the <a href="/wiki/Fascinum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascinum">fascinum</a>, a phallic <a href="/wiki/Amulet" title="Amulet">amulet</a> or charm</figcaption></figure> At the same time, the <a href="/wiki/Phallus" title="Phallus">phallus</a> was displayed ubiquitously in the form of the <a href="/wiki/Fascinum" class="mw-redirect" title="Fascinum">fascinum</a>, a magic charm thought to ward off malevolent forces; it became a customary decoration, found widely in the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, especially in the form of <a href="/wiki/Wind_chime" title="Wind chime">wind chimes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tintinnabulum_(Ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tintinnabulum (Ancient Rome)">tintinnabula</a>).<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The outsized phallus of the god <a href="/wiki/Priapus" title="Priapus">Priapus</a> may originally have served an <a href="/wiki/Apotropaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Apotropaic">apotropaic</a> purpose, but in art it is frequently laughter-provoking or grotesque.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Hellenization, however, influenced the depiction of male nudity in Roman art, leading to more complex signification of the male body shown nude, partially nude, or costumed in a <a href="/wiki/Muscle_cuirass" title="Muscle cuirass">muscle cuirass</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Warren_Cup">Warren Cup</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Warren Cup">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Warren_Cup" title="Warren Cup">Warren Cup</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg/220px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg/330px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg/440px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3371" data-file-height="2697" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Warren_Cup" title="Warren Cup">Warren Cup</a>, portraying a mature bearded man and a youth on its "Greek" side</figcaption></figure> The Warren Cup is a piece of <a href="/wiki/Symposium" title="Symposium">convivial</a> silver, usually dated to the time of the <a href="/wiki/Julio-Claudian_dynasty" title="Julio-Claudian dynasty">Julio-Claudian dynasty</a> (1st century AD), that depicts two scenes of male–male sex.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> It has been argued<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> that the two sides of this cup represent the duality of pederastic tradition at Rome, the Greek in contrast to the Roman. On the "Greek" side, a bearded, mature man is penetrating a young but muscularly developed male in a rear-entry position. The young man, probably meant to be 17 or 18, holds on to a sexual apparatus for maintaining an otherwise awkward or uncomfortable sexual position. A child-slave watches the scene furtively through a door ajar. The "Roman" side of the cup shows a <a href="#Puer_delicatus">puer delicatus</a> [fig., delicious boy], age 12 to 13, held for intercourse in the arms of an older male, clean-shaven and fit. The bearded pederast may be Greek, with a partner who participates more freely and with a look of pleasure. His counterpart, who has a more severe haircut, appears to be Roman, and thus uses a slave boy; the myrtle wreath he wears symbolizes his role as an "<a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Sexual_conquest_and_imperialism" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">erotic conqueror</a>".<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> The cup may have been designed as a <a href="/wiki/Conversation_piece" title="Conversation piece">conversation piece</a> to provoke the kind of dialogue on ideals of love and sex that took place at a Greek <a href="/wiki/Symposium" title="Symposium">symposium</a>.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> More recently, academic Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs has questioned the authenticity of the cup, while others have published defenses of its authenticity. Marabini Moevs has argued, for example, that the Cup was probably manufactured by the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and that it supposedly represents perceptions of Greco-Roman homosexuality from that time,<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> whereas defenders of the legitimacy of the cup have highlighted certain signs of ancient corrosion and the fact that a vessel manufactured in the 19th century, would have been made of pure silver, whereas the Warren Cup has a level of purity equal to that of other Roman vessels.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> To address this issue, the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, which holds the utensil, performed a chemical analysis in 2015 to determine the date of its production. The analysis concluded that the silverware was indeed made in classical antiquity.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Male–male_sex">Male–male sex</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Male–male sex">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roles">Roles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Roles">edit</a>]</div> A man or boy who took the "receptive" role in sex was variously called cinaedus, pathicus, <a href="/wiki/Exoletus" title="Exoletus">exoletus</a>, concubinus (male concubine), spint(h)ria ("analist"), puer ("boy"), pullus ("chick"), pusio, delicatus (especially in the phrase puer delicatus, "exquisite" or "dainty boy"), mollis ("soft", used more generally as an aesthetic quality counter to aggressive masculinity), tener ("delicate"), debilis ("weak" or "disabled"), effeminatus, discinctus ("loose-belted"), pisciculi, and morbosus ("sick"). As Amy Richlin has noted, "'<a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a>' is not exact, 'penetrated' is not self-defined, '<a href="/wiki/Top,_bottom_and_versatile" class="mw-redirect" title="Top, bottom and versatile">passive</a>' misleadingly connotes inaction" in translating this group of words into English.<a href="#cite_note-auto-76">[76]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tito,_70-81_ca,_collez._albani.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG/100px-Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG/150px-Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG/200px-Tito%2C_70-81_ca%2C_collez._albani.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1956" data-file-height="2874" /></a><figcaption>According to Suetonius, emperor <a href="/wiki/Titus" title="Titus">Titus</a> (above) kept a great number of exoleti (see below) and <a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuchs</a> at his disposal</figcaption></figure> Some terms, such as exoletus, specifically refer to an adult; Romans who were socially marked as "masculine" did not confine their same-sex penetration of male prostitutes or slaves to those who were "boys" under the age of 20.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> Some older men may have at times preferred the passive role. Martial describes, for example, the case of an older man who played the passive role and let a younger slave occupy the active role.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> An adult male's desire to be penetrated was considered a sickness (morbus); the desire to penetrate a handsome youth was thought normal.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cinaedus">Cinaedus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cinaedus">edit</a>]</div> Cinaedus is a derogatory word denoting a male who was gender-deviant; his choice of sex acts, or preference in sexual partner, was secondary to his perceived deficiencies as a "man" (vir).<a href="#cite_note-auto2-80">[80]</a> Catullus directs the slur cinaedus at his friend Furius in his notoriously obscene <a href="/wiki/Catullus_16" title="Catullus 16">Carmen 16</a>.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> Although in some contexts cinaedus may denote an anally passive man<a href="#cite_note-auto2-80">[80]</a> and is the most frequent word for a male who allowed himself to be penetrated anally,<a href="#cite_note-auto1-82">[82]</a> a man called cinaedus might also have sex with and be considered highly attractive to women.<a href="#cite_note-auto2-80">[80]</a> In Epigrams 7.58, <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> satirises a woman named Galla who has been 'married' to cinaedi on six to seven occasions for her attraction to their tender, effeminate appearance, though the 'marriage' ended unsatisfactorily as each cinaedus had a penis as tender and effeminate as his appearance, of which Galla has found attractive.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a>Cinaedus is not equivalent to the English vulgarism "<a href="/wiki/Faggot_(slang)" class="mw-redirect" title="Faggot (slang)">faggot</a>",<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> except that both words can be used to deride a male considered deficient in manhood or with androgynous characteristics whom women may find sexually alluring.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> The clothing, use of cosmetics, and mannerisms of a cinaedus marked him as<a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Effeminacy_and_transvestism" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome"> effeminate</a>,<a href="#cite_note-auto2-80">[80]</a> but the same effeminacy that Roman men might find alluring in a puer became unattractive in the physically mature male.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> The cinaedus thus represented the absence of what Romans considered true manhood, and the word is virtually untranslatable into English.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Originally, a cinaedus (Greek kinaidos) was a professional dancer, characterized as non-Roman or "Eastern"; the word itself may come from a language of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a>. His performance featured <a href="/wiki/Tympanum_(hand_drum)" title="Tympanum (hand drum)">tambourine</a>-playing and movements of the buttocks that suggested anal intercourse.<a href="#cite_note-auto1-82">[82]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Kinaidokolpitai" title="Kinaidokolpitai">Cinaedocolpitae</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabian</a> tribe recorded in Greco-Roman sources of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, may have a name derived from this meaning.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Concubinus">Concubinus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Concubinus">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marble_busts_of_Hadrian_(left,_117-138_CE,_probably_from_Rome)_and_Antinous_(right,_130-138_CE,_from_Rome)._Antinous_was_Hadrian%27s_lover._He_met_Hadrian_in_120s_CE_and_died_in_the_Nile,_Egypt,_in_130_CE._The_British_Museum,_London.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Marble_busts_of_Hadrian_%28left%2C_117-138_CE%2C_probably_from_Rome%29_and_Antinous_%28right%2C_130-138_CE%2C_from_Rome%29._Antinous_was_Hadrian%27s_lover._He_met_Hadrian_in_120s_CE_and_died_in_the_Nile%2C_Egypt%2C_in_130_CE._The_British_Museum%2C_London.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Marble_busts_of_Hadrian_%28left%2C_117-138_CE%2C_probably_from_Rome%29_and_Antinous_%28right%2C_130-138_CE%2C_from_Rome%29._Antinous_was_Hadrian%27s_lover._He_met_Hadrian_in_120s_CE_and_died_in_the_Nile%2C_Egypt%2C_in_130_CE._The_British_Museum%2C_London.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Marble_busts_of_Hadrian_%28left%2C_117-138_CE%2C_probably_from_Rome%29_and_Antinous_%28right%2C_130-138_CE%2C_from_Rome%29._Antinous_was_Hadrian%27s_lover._He_met_Hadrian_in_120s_CE_and_died_in_the_Nile%2C_Egypt%2C_in_130_CE._The_British_Museum%2C_London.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6015" data-file-height="4015" /></a><figcaption>The young <a href="/wiki/Antinous" title="Antinous">Antinous</a> was likely the primary partner of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a> (both pictured above), despite the fact that the latter was married</figcaption></figure> Some Roman men kept a male concubine (concubinus, "one who lies with; a bed-mate") before they married a woman. <a href="/wiki/Eva_Cantarella" title="Eva Cantarella">Eva Cantarella</a> has described this form of concubinage as "a stable sexual relationship, not exclusive but privileged".<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> Within the hierarchy of household slaves, the concubinus seems to have been regarded as holding a special or elevated status that was threatened by the introduction of a wife. In a <a href="/wiki/Epithalamium" title="Epithalamium">wedding hymn</a>, Catullus<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> portrays the groom's concubinus as anxious about his future and fearful of abandonment.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> His long hair will be cut, and he will have to resort to the female slaves for sexual gratification—indicating that he is expected to transition from being a receptive sex object to one who performs penetrative sex.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> The concubinus might father children with women of the household, not excluding the wife (at least in <a href="/wiki/Invective" title="Invective">invective</a>).<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> The feelings and situation of the concubinus are treated as significant enough to occupy five stanzas of Catullus's wedding poem. He plays an active role in the ceremonies, distributing the traditional nuts that boys threw (rather like <a href="/wiki/Ask_Ann_Landers#Wedding_rice_and_birds" title="Ask Ann Landers">rice or birdseed</a> in the modern Western tradition).<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> The relationship with a concubinus might be discreet or more open: male concubines sometimes attended <a href="/wiki/Symposium" title="Symposium">dinner parties</a> with the man whose companion they were.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> even suggests that a prized concubinus might pass from father to son as an especially coveted inheritance.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> A military officer on campaign might be accompanied by a concubinus.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Like the <a href="/wiki/Catamite" title="Catamite">catamite</a> or <a href="#Puer_delicatus">puer delicatus</a>, the role of the concubine was regularly compared to that of <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Trojan</a> prince abducted by <a href="/wiki/Jove" class="mw-redirect" title="Jove">Jove</a> (Greek <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>) to serve as his <a href="/wiki/Cupbearer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cupbearer">cupbearer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Concubinatus#Concubina" title="Concubinatus">concubina</a>, a female concubine who might be free, held a protected legal status under <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a>, but the concubinus did not, since he was typically a slave.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Exoletus">Exoletus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Exoletus">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg/175px-Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg/263px-Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg/350px-Bust_of_Elagabalus_-_Palazzo_Nuovo_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3328" data-file-height="5120" /></a><figcaption>Head of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Elagabalus" title="Elagabalus">Elagabalus</a>, said to have surrounded himself with <a href="/wiki/Exoletus" title="Exoletus">exoleti</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Exoletus" title="Exoletus">Exoletus</a> (pl. exoleti) is the past-participle form of the verb exolescere, which means "to grow up" or "to grow old".<a href="#cite_note-auto6-100">[100]</a> The term denotes a male prostitute who services another sexually despite the fact that he himself is past his prime according to the ephebic tastes of Roman homoerotism.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> Though adult men were expected to take on the role of "penetrator" in their love affairs, such a restriction did not apply to exoleti. In their texts, Pomponius and Juvenal both included characters who were adult male prostitutes and had as clients male citizens who sought their services so they could take a "female" role in bed (see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Homoerotic_literature_and_art">above</a>). In other texts, however, exoleti adopt a receptive position.<a href="#cite_note-auto6-100">[100]</a> The relationship between the exoletus and his partner could begin when he was still a boy and the affair then extended into his adulthood.<a href="#cite_note-vey-102">[102]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] It is impossible to say how often this happened. For even if there was a tight bond between the couple, the general social expectation was that pederastic affairs would end once the younger partner grew facial hair. As such, when Martial celebrates in two of his epigrams (1.31 and 5.48) the relationship of his friend, the centurion Aulens Pudens, with his slave Encolpos, the poet more than once gives voice to the hope that the latter's beard come late, so that the romance between the pair may last long. Continuing the affair beyond that point could result in damage to the master's repute. Some men, however, insisted on ignoring this convention.<a href="#cite_note-vey-102">[102]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] Exoleti appear with certain frequency in Latin texts, both fictional and historical, unlike in Greek literature, suggesting perhaps that adult male-male sex was more common among the Romans than among the Greeks.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> Ancient sources impute the love of, or the preference for, exoleti (using this or equivalent terms) to various figures of Roman history, such as the tribune <a href="/wiki/Publius_Clodius_Pulcher" title="Publius Clodius Pulcher">Clodius</a>,<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> the emperors Tiberius,<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <a href="/wiki/Galba" title="Galba">Galba</a>,<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> Titus,<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elagabalus" title="Elagabalus">Elagabalus</a>,<a href="#cite_note-auto6-100">[100]</a> besides other figures encountered in anecdotes, told by writers such as <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, on more ordinary citizens.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pathicus">Pathicus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Pathicus">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg/170px-Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg/255px-Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg/340px-Gaius_Caesar_Caligula.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="1164" /></a><figcaption>A young aristocrat by the name of Valerius Catullus boasted of penetrating the emperor <a href="/wiki/Caligula" title="Caligula">Caligula</a> (above) during a lengthy intimate session<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a></figcaption></figure> Pathicus was a "blunt" word for a male who was penetrated sexually. It derived from the unattested Greek adjective pathikos, from the verb paskhein, equivalent to the Latin <a href="/wiki/Deponent_verb" title="Deponent verb">deponent</a> patior, pati, passus, "undergo, submit to, endure, suffer".<a href="#cite_note-auto1-82">[82]</a> The English word "passive" derives from the Latin passus.<a href="#cite_note-auto-76">[76]</a> Pathicus and cinaedus are often not distinguished in usage by Latin writers, but cinaedus may be a more general term for a male not in conformity with the role of vir, a "real man", while pathicus specifically denotes an adult male who takes the sexually receptive role.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> A pathicus was not a "homosexual" as such. His sexuality was not defined by the gender of the person using him as a receptacle for sex, but rather his desire to be so used. Because in Roman culture a man who penetrates another adult male almost always expresses contempt or revenge, the pathicus might be seen as more akin to the sexual <a href="/wiki/Sadomasochism" title="Sadomasochism">masochist</a> in his experience of pleasure. He might be penetrated orally or anally by a man or by a woman with a <a href="/wiki/Dildo" title="Dildo">dildo</a>, but showed no desire for penetrating nor having his own penis stimulated. He might also be dominated by a woman who compels him to perform <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Cunnilingus_and_fellatio" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">cunnilingus</a>.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Puer">Puer</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Puer">edit</a>]</div> In the discourse of sexuality, puer ("boy") was a role as well as an age group.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> Both puer and the feminine equivalent puella, "girl", could refer to a man's sexual partner, regardless of age.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> As an age designation, the freeborn puer made the <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Rites_of_passage" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">transition from childhood</a> at around age 14, when he assumed the <a href="/wiki/Toga_virilis" class="mw-redirect" title="Toga virilis">"toga of manhood"</a>, but he was 17 or 18 before he began to take part in public life.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> A slave would never be considered a vir, a "real man"; he would be called puer, "boy", throughout his life.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> Pueri might be "functionally interchangeable" with women as receptacles for sex,<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> but freeborn male minors were strictly off-limits.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> To accuse a Roman man of being someone's "boy" was an insult that impugned his manhood, particularly in the political arena.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> The aging cinaedus or an anally passive man might wish to present himself as a puer.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Puer_delicatus">Puer delicatus</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Puer delicatus">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg/220px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg/330px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg/440px-Warren_Cup_BM_GR_1999.4-26.1_n2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2497" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>"Roman" side of the <a href="/wiki/Warren_Cup" title="Warren Cup">Warren Cup</a>, with the wreathed "erotic conqueror" and his puer delicatus ("dainty boy").<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, London.</figcaption></figure> The puer delicatus was an "exquisite" or "dainty" child-slave chosen by his master for his beauty as a "<a href="/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships" title="Age disparity in sexual relationships">boy toy</a>",<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> also referred to as <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style>deliciae ("sweets" or "delights").<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> Unlike the freeborn Greek <a href="/wiki/Eromenos" title="Eromenos">eromenos</a> ("beloved"), who was protected by social custom, the Roman delicatus was in a physically and morally vulnerable position.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> The "coercive and exploitative" relationship between the Roman master and the delicatus, who might be prepubescent, can be characterized as <a href="/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia">pedophilic</a>, in contrast to Greek <a href="/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece" title="Pederasty in ancient Greece">paiderasteia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> Funeral inscriptions found in the ruins of the imperial household under <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a> also indicate that deliciae were kept in the palace and that some slaves, male and female, worked as beauticians for these boys.<a href="#cite_note-will35-124">[124]</a> One of Augustus' pueri is known by name: Sarmentus.<a href="#cite_note-will35-124">[124]</a> The boy was sometimes <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Castration_and_circumcision" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">castrated</a> in an effort to preserve his youthful qualities; Caroline Vout asserts that the emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a>'s eunuch <a href="/wiki/Sporus" title="Sporus">Sporus</a>, whom he castrated and married, may have been a puer delicatus. <a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Pueri delicati might be idealized in poetry and the relationship between him and his master may be painted in what his master viewed as strongly romantic colors. In the <a href="/wiki/Silvae" title="Silvae">Silvae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a> composed two epitaphs (2.1 and 2.6) to commemorate the relationship of two of his friends with their respective delicati upon the death of the latter. These poems have been argued to demonstrate that such relationships could have an emotional dimension,<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> and it is known from inscriptions in Roman ruins that men could be buried with their delicati, which is evidence of the degree of control that masters would not relinquish, even in death, as well as of a sexual relationship in life.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Domiziano_da_collezione_albani,_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG/170px-Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG/255px-Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG/340px-Domiziano_da_collezione_albani%2C_fine_del_I_sec._dc._02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1859" /></a><figcaption>Emperor <a href="/wiki/Domitian" title="Domitian">Domitian</a></figcaption></figure> Both Martial and Statius in a number of poems celebrate the freedman Earinus, a eunuch, and his devotion to the emperor <a href="/wiki/Domitian" title="Domitian">Domitian</a>.<a href="#cite_note-will35-124">[124]</a> Statius goes as far as to describe this relationship as a marriage (3.4). In the erotic elegies of <a href="/wiki/Tibullus" title="Tibullus">Tibullus</a>, the delicatus Marathus wears lavish and expensive clothing.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> The beauty of the delicatus was measured by <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollonian</a> standards, especially in regard to his long hair, which was supposed to be wavy, fair, and scented with perfume.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> The mythological type of the delicatus was represented by <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Trojan</a> youth abducted by <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jove</a> (Greek <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>) to be his divine companion and cupbearer.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Satyricon" title="Satyricon">Satyricon</a>, the tastelessly wealthy freedman <a href="/wiki/Trimalchio" title="Trimalchio">Trimalchio</a> says that as a child-slave he had been a puer delicatus serving both the master and, secretly, the mistress of the household.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pullus">Pullus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Pullus">edit</a>]</div> Pullus was a term for a young animal, and particularly a <a href="/wiki/Chicken" title="Chicken">chick</a>. It was an affectionate word<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> traditionally used for a boy (puer)<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> who was loved by someone "in an obscene sense". The <a href="/wiki/Lexicographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lexicographer">lexicographer</a> <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius_Festus" title="Sextus Pompeius Festus">Festus</a> provides a definition and illustrates with a comic anecdote. <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Eburnus" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus">Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a> in 116 BC and later a <a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">censor</a> known for his moral severity, earned his <a href="/wiki/Cognomen" title="Cognomen">cognomen</a> meaning "<a href="/wiki/Ivory" title="Ivory">Ivory</a>" (the modern equivalent might be "<a href="/wiki/Porcelain" title="Porcelain">Porcelain</a>") because of his fair good looks (candor). Eburnus was said to have been struck by lightning on his buttocks, perhaps a reference to a <a href="/wiki/Birthmark" title="Birthmark">birthmark</a>.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> It was joked that he was marked as "<a href="/wiki/Jove" class="mw-redirect" title="Jove">Jove</a>'s chick" (pullus Iovis), since the characteristic instrument of the king of the gods was the lightning bolt<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> (see also the relation of Jove's cupbearer Ganymede to "<a href="/wiki/Catamite" title="Catamite">catamite</a>"). Although the sexual inviolability of underage male citizens is usually emphasized, this anecdote is among the evidence that even the most well-born youths might go through a phase in which they could be viewed as "sex objects".<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> Perhaps tellingly,<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> this same member of the illustrious <a href="/wiki/Fabia_gens" title="Fabia gens">Fabius family</a> ended his life in exile, as punishment for killing his own son for <a href="#Impudicitia">impudicitia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> The 4th-century <a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallo-Roman">Gallo-Roman</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius">Ausonius</a> records the word pullipremo, "chick-squeezer", which he says was used by the early satirist <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Lucilius" title="Gaius Lucilius">Lucilius</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pusio">Pusio</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Pusio">edit</a>]</div> Pusio is etymologically related to puer, and means "boy, lad". It often had a distinctly sexual or sexually demeaning connotation.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a> indicates the pusio was more desirable than women because he was less quarrelsome and would not demand gifts from his lover.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> Pusio was also used as a <a href="/wiki/Personal_name" title="Personal name">personal name</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cognomen" title="Cognomen">cognomen</a>). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scultimidonus">Scultimidonus</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Scultimidonus">edit</a>]</div> Scultimidonus ("asshole-bestower")<a href="#cite_note-auto3-142">[142]</a> was rare and "florid" slang<a href="#cite_note-auto1-82">[82]</a> that appears in a fragment from the early Roman satirist <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Lucilius" title="Gaius Lucilius">Lucilius</a>.<a href="#cite_note-auto3-142">[142]</a> It is <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">glossed</a><a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> as "Those who bestow for free their scultima, that is, their anal orifice, which is called the scultima as if from the inner parts of whores" (scortorum intima).<a href="#cite_note-auto1-82">[82]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Impudicitia">Impudicitia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Impudicitia">edit</a>]</div> The abstract noun impudicitia (adjective impudicus) was the negation of <a href="/wiki/Pudicitia" title="Pudicitia">pudicitia</a>, "sexual morality, chastity". As a characteristic of males, it often implies the willingness to be penetrated.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> Dancing was an expression of male impudicitia.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> Impudicitia might be associated with behaviors in young men who retained a degree of boyish attractiveness but were old enough to be expected to behave according to masculine norms. <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> was accused of bringing the notoriety of infamia upon himself, both when he was about 19, for taking the passive role in an affair with <a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_IV_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes IV of Bithynia">King Nicomedes of Bithynia</a>, and later for many adulterous affairs with women.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a> noted that "impudicitia is a crime for the freeborn, a necessity in a slave, a duty for the freedman":<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> male–male sex in Rome asserted the power of the citizen over slaves, confirming his masculinity.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subculture">Subculture</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Subculture">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg/280px-Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="368" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg/420px-Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg/560px-Roman-era_perfume_bottle_made_of_cameo_glass_showing_homoerotic_scene.jpg 2x" data-file-width="565" data-file-height="742" /></a><figcaption>Perfume bottle made of cameo glass found in the Roman necropolis of Ostippo (Spain). Side B of the bottle, shown above, shows two young men in bed. Side A, not shown, shows a man and a woman. The George Ortiz Collection 25 BCE - 14 CE</figcaption></figure> Latin had such a wealth of words for men outside the masculine norm that some scholars<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> argue for the existence of a homosexual <a href="/wiki/Subculture" title="Subculture">subculture</a> at Rome; that is, although the noun "homosexual" has no straightforward equivalent in Latin, literary sources reveal a pattern of behaviors among a minority of free men that indicate same-sex preference or orientation. <a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a> mentions a street known for male prostitutes.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> Public baths are also referred to as a place to find sexual partners. <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a> states that such men scratched their heads with a finger to identify themselves. In his 9th satire, Juvenal describes the life of a male gigolo who earned his living servicing rich passive homosexual men. <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a> indicates that cinaedi might form social alliances for mutual enjoyment, such as hosting dinner parties. In his novel <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a>, he describes one group who jointly purchased and shared a <a href="#Concubinus">concubinus</a>. On one occasion, they invited a "well-endowed" young <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hick" class="extiw" title="wikt:hick">hick</a> (rusticanus iuvenis) to their party, and took turns performing oral sex on him.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> Other scholars, primarily those who argue from the perspective of <a href="/wiki/Social_constructionism" title="Social constructionism">social constructionism</a>, maintain that there is not an identifiable social group of males who would have self-identified as "homosexual" as a community.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage_between_males">Marriage between males</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Marriage between males">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Marriage in ancient Rome">Marriage in ancient Rome</a></div> Although in general the Romans regarded <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Marital_sex" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">marriage as a male–female union</a> for the purpose of producing children, a few scholars believe that in the early Imperial period some male couples were celebrating <a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Marriage in ancient Rome">traditional marriage rites</a> in the presence of friends. Male–male weddings are reported by sources that mock them. Both Martial and Juvenal refer to marriage between males as something that occurs not infrequently, although they disapprove of it.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a> did not recognize marriage between males, but one of the grounds for disapproval expressed in Juvenal's satire is that celebrating the rites would lead to expectations for such marriages to be registered officially.<a href="#cite_note-auto4-154">[154]</a> As the empire was becoming Christianized in the 4th century, legal prohibitions against marriage between males began to appear.<a href="#cite_note-auto4-154">[154]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg/170px-Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg/255px-Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg/340px-Nero_Palatino_Inv618.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1715" data-file-height="2300" /></a><figcaption>Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a></figcaption></figure> Various ancient sources state that the emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a> celebrated two public weddings with males, once taking the role of the bride (with a <a href="/wiki/Freedman" title="Freedman">freedman</a> <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras_(freedman)" title="Pythagoras (freedman)">Pythagoras</a>), and once the groom (with <a href="/wiki/Sporus" title="Sporus">Sporus</a>); there may have been a third in which he was the bride.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> The ceremonies included traditional elements such as a <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowry</a> and the wearing of the Roman bridal veil.<a href="#cite_note-auto5-156">[156]</a> In the early 3rd century AD, the emperor <a href="/wiki/Elagabalus" title="Elagabalus">Elagabalus</a> is reported to have been the bride in a wedding to his male partner. Other mature men at his court had husbands, or said they had husbands in imitation of the emperor.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> Although the sources are in general hostile, <a href="/wiki/Dio_Cassius" class="mw-redirect" title="Dio Cassius">Dio Cassius</a> implies that Nero's stage performances were regarded as more scandalous than his marriages to men.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> The earliest reference in Latin literature to a marriage between males occurs in the <a href="/wiki/Philippicae" title="Philippicae">Philippics</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, who insulted <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Antony</a> for being promiscuous in his youth until <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Scribonius_Curio_(praetor_49_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Scribonius Curio (praetor 49 BC)">Curio</a> "established you in a fixed and stable marriage (matrimonium), as if he had given you a <a href="/wiki/Stola" title="Stola">stola</a>", the traditional garment of a married woman.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> Although Cicero's sexual implications are clear, the point of the passage is to cast Antony in the submissive role in the relationship and to impugn his manhood in various ways; there is no reason to think that actual marriage rites were performed.<a href="#cite_note-auto5-156">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Male–male_rape">Male–male rape</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Male–male rape">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg/200px-Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg/300px-Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg/400px-Inkunabel.ValMax.001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2369" data-file-height="3327" /></a><figcaption>Page from an <a href="/wiki/Incunable" title="Incunable">incunable</a> of <a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a>, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, printed in red and black by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%B6ffer" title="Peter Schöffer">Peter Schöffer</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a>, 1471).</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a> addressed the rape of a male citizen as early as the 2nd century BC,<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> when it was ruled that even a man who was "disreputable and questionable" (famosus, related to infamis, and suspiciosus) had the same right as other free men not to have his body subjected to forced sex.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> The Lex Julia de vi publica,<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> recorded in the early 3rd century AD but probably dating from the <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictatorship</a> of Julius Caesar, defined rape as forced sex against "boy, woman, or anyone"; the rapist was subject to execution, a rare penalty in Roman law.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> Men who had been raped were exempt from the loss of legal or social standing suffered by those who submitted their bodies to use for the pleasure of others; a male prostitute or entertainer was infamis and excluded from the legal protections extended to citizens in good standing.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> As a matter of law, a <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Master-slave_relations" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">slave</a> could not be raped; he was considered property and not <a href="/wiki/Person_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Person (law)">legally a person</a>. The slave's owner, however, could prosecute the rapist for property damage.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> Fears of mass rape following a military defeat extended equally to male and female potential victims.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> According to the jurist <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pomponius" title="Sextus Pomponius">Pomponius</a>, "whatever man has been raped by the force of robbers or the enemy in wartime" ought to bear no stigma.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> The threat of one man to subject another to anal or oral rape (<a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Irrumatio" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">irrumatio</a>) is a theme of invective poetry, most notably in <a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a>'s notorious <a href="/wiki/Catullus_16" title="Catullus 16">Carmen 16</a>,<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> and was a form of masculine braggadocio.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> Rape was one of the traditional punishments inflicted on a male adulterer by the wronged husband,<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> though perhaps more in revenge fantasy than in practice.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> In a collection of twelve anecdotes dealing with assaults on chastity, the historian <a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a> features male victims in equal number to female.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> In a "<a href="/wiki/Mock_trial" title="Mock trial">mock trial</a>" case described by <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">the elder Seneca</a>, an adulescens (a man young enough not to have begun his formal career) was gang-raped by ten of his peers; although the case is hypothetical, Seneca assumes that the law permitted the successful prosecution of the rapists.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> Another hypothetical case imagines the extremity to which a rape victim might be driven: the freeborn male (<a href="/wiki/Ingenui" title="Ingenui">ingenuus</a>) who was raped commits suicide.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> The Romans considered the rape of an ingenuus to be among the worst crimes that could be committed, along with <a href="/wiki/Parricide" title="Parricide">parricide</a>, the rape of a female virgin, and robbing a <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">temple</a>.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Same-sex_relations_in_the_military">Same-sex relations in the military</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Same-sex relations in the military">edit</a>]</div> The Roman soldier, like any free and respectable Roman male of status, was expected to show self-discipline in matters of sex. <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> (reigned 27 BC – 14 AD) even prohibited soldiers from marrying, a ban that remained in force for the Imperial army for nearly two centuries.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> Other forms of sexual gratification available to soldiers were prostitutes of any gender, <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Master-slave_relations" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">male slaves</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_rape" class="mw-redirect" title="War rape">war rape</a>, and same-sex relations.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> The <a href="/wiki/De_Bello_Hispaniensi" title="De Bello Hispaniensi">Bellum Hispaniense</a>, about <a href="/wiki/Caesar%27s_civil_war" title="Caesar's civil war">Caesar's civil war</a> on the front in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Spain">Roman Spain</a>, mentions an officer who has a male concubine (concubinus) on <a href="/wiki/Military_campaign" title="Military campaign">campaign</a>. Sex among fellow soldiers, however, violated the Roman decorum against intercourse with another freeborn male. A soldier maintained his masculinity by not allowing his body to be used for sexual purposes.<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a> In warfare, rape symbolized defeat, a motive for the soldier not to make his body sexually vulnerable in general.<a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a> During the Republic, homosexual behavior among fellow soldiers was subject to harsh penalties, including death,<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> as a violation of <a href="/wiki/Military_discipline" title="Military discipline">military discipline</a>. <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a> (2nd century BC) reports that the punishment for a soldier who willingly submitted to penetration was the <a href="/wiki/Fustuarium" title="Fustuarium">fustuarium</a>, clubbing to death.<a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a> Roman historians record cautionary tales of officers who abuse their authority to coerce sex from their soldiers, and then suffer dire consequences.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a> The youngest officers, who still might retain some of the adolescent attraction that Romans favored in male–male relations, were advised to beef up their masculine qualities by not wearing perfume, nor trimming nostril and underarm hair.<a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a> An incident related by <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> in his biography of <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Marius</a> illustrates the soldier's right to maintain his sexual integrity despite pressure from his superiors. A good-looking young recruit named <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Trebonius" title="Trial of Trebonius">Trebonius</a><a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> had been <a href="/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment">sexually harassed</a> over a period of time by his superior officer, who happened to be Marius's nephew, Gaius Lusius. One night, after having fended off unwanted advances on numerous occasions, Trebonius was summoned to Lusius's tent. Unable to disobey the command of his superior, he found himself the object of a sexual assault and drew his sword, killing Lusius. A conviction for killing an officer typically resulted in execution. When brought to trial, he was able to produce witnesses to show that he had repeatedly had to fend off Lusius, and "had never prostituted his body to anyone, despite offers of expensive gifts". Marius not only acquitted Trebonius in the killing of his kinsman, but gave him a <a href="/wiki/Roman_military_decorations_and_punishments#Crowns" title="Roman military decorations and punishments">crown for bravery</a>.<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sex_acts">Sex acts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Sex acts">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spintria_-_15.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Spintria_-_15.jpg/200px-Spintria_-_15.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Spintria_-_15.jpg/300px-Spintria_-_15.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Spintria_-_15.jpg/400px-Spintria_-_15.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3729" data-file-height="2489" /></a><figcaption>Spintria token with sex between two males on a bed. On the reverse side is the numeral XV. Around 22 to 79 CE. <a href="#cite_note-Clarke_p244-186">[186]</a> <a href="#cite_note-2007_Brisbane-187">[187]</a></figcaption></figure> In addition to repeatedly described anal intercourse, oral sex was common. A graffito from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> is unambiguous: "Secundus is a fellator of rare ability" (Secundus felator rarus).<a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> In contrast to ancient Greece, a large penis was a major element in attractiveness. <a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a> describes a man with a large penis in a public bathroom.<a href="#cite_note-189">[189]</a> Several emperors are reported in a negative light for surrounding themselves with men with large sexual organs.<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman_culture" title="Gallo-Roman culture">Gallo-Roman</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius">Ausonius</a> (4th century AD) makes a joke about a male threesome that depends on imagining the configurations of group sex: <blockquote>"Three men in bed together: two are sinning,<a href="#cite_note-191">[191]</a> two are sinned against." "Doesn't that make four men?" "You're mistaken: the man on either end is implicated once, but the one in the middle does double duty."<a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a></blockquote> In other words, a 'train' is being alluded to: the first man penetrates the second, who in turn penetrates the third. The first two are "sinning", while the last two are being "sinned against". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lesbian_sex">Lesbian sex</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Lesbian sex">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_lesbianism" title="History of lesbianism">History of lesbianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tribadism" title="Tribadism">Tribadism</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg/180px-Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg/270px-Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg/360px-Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1425" /></a><figcaption>Female couple from a series of erotic paintings at the Suburban Baths, Pompeii</figcaption></figure> References to sex between women are infrequent in the Roman literature of the Republic and early <a href="/wiki/Principate" title="Principate">Principate</a>. Ovid finds it "a desire known to no one, freakish, novel ... among all animals no female is seized by desire for female".<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a> During the Roman Imperial era, sources for same-sex relations among women, though still rare, are more abundant, in the form of love spells, medical writing, texts on astrology and the interpretation of dreams, and other sources.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a> While graffiti written in Latin by men in Roman ruins commonly express desire for both males and females,<a href="#cite_note-graff-195">[195]</a> graffiti imputed to women overwhelmingly express desire only for males,<a href="#cite_note-graff-195">[195]</a> though one graffito from Pompeii may be an exception, and has been read by many scholars as depicting the desire of one woman for another: <blockquote> I wish I could hold to my neck and embrace the little arms, and bear kisses on the tender lips. Go on, doll, and trust your joys to the winds; believe me, light is the nature of men.<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a> </blockquote> Other readings, unrelated to female homosexual desire, are also possible. According to Roman studies scholar Craig Williams, the verses can also be read as, "a poetic soliloquy in which a woman ponders her own painful experiences with men and addresses herself in Catullan manner; the opening wish for an embrace and kisses express a backward-looking yearning for her man."<a href="#cite_note-graff-195">[195]</a> Greek words for a woman who prefers sex with another woman include hetairistria (compare <a href="/wiki/Hetaira" title="Hetaira">hetaira</a>, "courtesan" or "companion"), tribas (plural tribades), and Lesbia; Latin words include the <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">loanword</a> tribas, fricatrix ("she who rubs"), and <a href="/wiki/Virago" title="Virago">virago</a>.<a href="#cite_note-197">[197]</a> An early reference to same-sex relations among women is found in the Roman-era Greek writer <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a> (2nd century CE): "They say there are women like that in Lesbos, masculine-looking, but they don't want to give it up for men. Instead, they consort with women, just like men."<a href="#cite_note-198">[198]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/300px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/450px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/600px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1968" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/The_Victory_of_Faith_(painting)" title="The Victory of Faith (painting)">The Victory of Faith</a> by <a href="/wiki/Saint_George_Hare" title="Saint George Hare">Saint George Hare</a> depicts two Roman Christians in the eve of their <a href="/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias" title="Damnatio ad bestias">damnatio ad bestias</a>. The painting has been described by <a href="/wiki/Kobena_Mercer" title="Kobena Mercer">Kobena Mercer</a> as depicting an interracial lesbian couple, likening it to Les Amis by <a href="/wiki/Jules_Robert_Auguste" title="Jules Robert Auguste">Jules Robert Auguste</a>.<a href="#cite_note-199">[199]</a></figcaption></figure> Since Romans thought a sex act required an active or dominant partner who was "<a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Phallic_sexuality" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">phallic</a>", male writers imagined that in female–female sex one of the women would use a <a href="/wiki/Dildo" title="Dildo">dildo</a> or have an exceptionally large <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Female_genitals" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">clitoris</a> for penetration, and that she would be the one experiencing pleasure.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a> Dildos are rarely mentioned in Roman sources, but were a popular comic item in Classical Greek literature and art.<a href="#cite_note-201">[201]</a> There is only one known depiction of a woman penetrating another woman in Roman art, whereas women using dildos is common in <a href="/wiki/Greek_vase_painting" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek vase painting">Greek vase painting</a>.<a href="#cite_note-202">[202]</a> Martial describes women acting sexually actively with other women as having outsized sexual appetites and performing penetrative sex on both women and boys.<a href="#cite_note-203">[203]</a> Imperial portrayals of women who sodomize boys, drink and eat like men, and engage in vigorous physical regimens may reflect cultural anxieties about the growing independence of Roman women.<a href="#cite_note-204">[204]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gender_presentation">Gender presentation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Gender presentation">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="788" data-file-height="551" /></a><figcaption>Hercules and Omphale cross-dressed (mosaic from <a href="/wiki/Roman_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Spain">Roman Spain</a>, 3rd century AD)</figcaption></figure> Cross-dressing appears in Roman literature and art in various ways to mark the uncertainties and ambiguities of gender: <ul><li>as political invective, when a politician is accused of dressing seductively or effeminately;</li> <li>as a mythological <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">trope</a>, as in the story of <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a> and <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a> exchanging roles and attire;<a href="#cite_note-205">[205]</a></li> <li>as a form of religious <a href="/wiki/Investiture" title="Investiture">investiture</a>, as for the priesthood of the <a href="/wiki/Galli" title="Galli">Galli</a>;</li> <li>and rarely or ambiguously as <a href="/wiki/Transvestic_fetishism" title="Transvestic fetishism">transvestic fetishism</a>.</li></ul> A section of the Digest by <a href="/wiki/Ulpian" title="Ulpian">Ulpian</a> categorizes <a href="/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Rome" title="Clothing in ancient Rome">Roman clothing</a> on the basis of who may appropriately wear it: vestimenta virilia, "men's clothing", is defined as the attire of the paterfamilias, "head of household"; puerilia is clothing that serves no purpose other than to mark its wearer as a "child" or minor; muliebria are the garments that characterize a materfamilias; communia, those that are "common", that is, worn by either sex; and familiarica, clothing for the familia, the subordinates in a household, including the staff and slaves. A man who wore women's clothes, Ulpian notes, would risk making himself the object of scorn.<a href="#cite_note-206">[206]</a> Female prostitutes were the only women in ancient Rome who wore the distinctively masculine toga. The wearing of the toga may signal that prostitutes were outside the normal social and legal category of "woman".<a href="#cite_note-207">[207]</a> A fragment from the playwright <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Accius" title="Lucius Accius">Accius</a> (170–86 BC) seems to refer to a father who secretly wore "virgin's finery".<a href="#cite_note-208">[208]</a> An instance of <a href="/wiki/Transvestism" title="Transvestism">transvestism</a> is noted in a legal case, in which "a certain senator accustomed to wear women's evening clothes" was disposing of the garments in his will.<a href="#cite_note-209">[209]</a> In the "<a href="/wiki/Mock_trial" title="Mock trial">mock trial</a>" exercise presented by <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">the elder Seneca</a>,<a href="#cite_note-210">[210]</a> the young man (adulescens) was gang-raped while wearing women's clothes in public, but his attire is explained as his acting on a dare by his friends, not as a choice based on gender identity or the pursuit of erotic pleasure.<a href="#cite_note-211">[211]</a> Gender ambiguity was a characteristic of the priests of the goddess <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a> known as Galli, whose ritual attire included items of women's clothing. They are sometimes considered a <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> or <a href="/wiki/Transsexual" title="Transsexual">transsexual</a> priesthood, since they were required to be castrated in imitation of <a href="/wiki/Attis" title="Attis">Attis</a>. The complexities of gender identity in the religion of Cybele and the Attis myth are explored by Catullus in one of his longest poems, Carmen 63.<a href="#cite_note-212">[212]</a> <a href="/wiki/Macrobius" title="Macrobius">Macrobius</a> describes a masculine form of "Venus" (Aphrodite) who received cult on <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>; she had a beard and male genitals, but wore women's clothing. The deity's worshippers cross-dressed, men wearing women's clothes, and women men's.<a href="#cite_note-213">[213]</a> The Latin poet <a href="/wiki/Laevius" title="Laevius">Laevius</a> wrote of worshipping "nurturing Venus" whether female or male (<a href="/wiki/Si_deus_si_dea" title="Si deus si dea">sive femina sive mas</a>).<a href="#cite_note-214">[214]</a> The figure was sometimes called <a href="/wiki/Aphroditos" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphroditos">Aphroditos</a>. In several surviving examples of Greek and Roman sculpture, the love goddess pulls up her garments to reveal her male genitalia, a gesture that traditionally held <a href="/wiki/Apotropaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Apotropaic">apotropaic</a> or magical power.<a href="#cite_note-215">[215]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Intersex">Intersex</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Intersex">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Intersex_in_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Intersex in history">Intersex in history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Hermaphroditism_and_androgyny" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Sexuality in ancient Rome § Hermaphroditism and androgyny</a></div> The Romans explored intersex identity through the myth of <a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a>, from which derives the now-pejorative term "hermaphrodite". The myth relates how a beautiful youth on the cusp of adulthood is sexually assaulted by a nymph; their identities became fused into one. Hermaphroditus was a popular subject of Roman art as a subversion of binary gender roles, represented often in sculpture and wall painting.<a href="#cite_note-216">[216]</a> The biological reality of intersex persons was also observed. For example, <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a> notes that "there are even those who are born of both sexes, whom we call hermaphrodites, at one time <a href="/wiki/Androgyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Androgyn">androgyni</a>" (andr-, "man", and gyn-, "woman", from the Greek),<a href="#cite_note-217">[217]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philostratus" title="Philostratus">Philostratus</a> offers a historical account of a congenital "<a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuch</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Philostratus-218">[218]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Under_Christian_rule">Under Christian rule</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Under Christian rule">edit</a>]</div> Attitudes toward same-sex behavior changed as Christianity became more prominent in the Empire. The modern perception of Roman sexual decadence can be traced to early <a href="/wiki/Christian_polemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian polemic">Christian polemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-219">[219]</a> Apart from measures to protect the liberty of citizens, the prosecution of male–male sex as a general crime began in the 3rd century when <a href="/wiki/Male_prostitution" title="Male prostitution">male prostitution</a> was banned by <a href="/wiki/Philip_the_Arab" title="Philip the Arab">Philip the Arab</a>. A series of laws regulating male–male sex were promulgated during the <a href="/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century" title="Crisis of the Third Century">social crisis of the 3rd century</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Statutory_rape" title="Statutory rape">statutory rape</a> of minors to marriage between males.<a href="#cite_note-220">[220]</a> By the end of the 4th century, anally passive men under the <a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity" title="Constantine the Great and Christianity">Christian Empire</a> were <a href="/wiki/Death_by_burning" title="Death by burning">punished by burning</a>.<a href="#cite_note-221">[221]</a> "Death by sword" was the punishment for a "man coupling like a woman" under the <a href="/wiki/Theodosian_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodosian Code">Theodosian Code</a>.<a href="#cite_note-222">[222]</a> It is in the 6th century, under <a href="/wiki/Justinian" class="mw-redirect" title="Justinian">Justinian</a>, that legal and moral discourse on male–male sex becomes distinctly <a href="/wiki/Abrahamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Abrahamic">Abrahamic</a>:<a href="#cite_note-223">[223]</a> all male–male sex, passive or active, no matter who the partners, was declared contrary to nature and punishable by death.<a href="#cite_note-224">[224]</a> Male–male sex was pointed to as cause for <a href="/wiki/Divine_retribution" title="Divine retribution">God's wrath</a> following a series of disasters around 542 and 559.<a href="#cite_note-225">[225]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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title="Lex Scantinia">Lex Scantinia</a>, a poorly documented Roman law that regulated erotic affairs between freeborn men</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT history in Italy">LGBT history in Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pederasty" title="Pederasty">Pederasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece" title="Pederasty in ancient Greece">Pederasty in ancient Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Sexuality in ancient Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality" title="Societal attitudes toward homosexuality">Societal attitudes toward homosexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spintria" title="Spintria">Spintria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakash%C5%AB" title="Wakashū">Wakashū</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=27" 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class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Craig Williams, Roman Homosexuality (Oxford University Press, 1999, 2010), p. 304, citing Saara Lilja, Homosexuality in Republican and Augustan Rome (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1983), p. 122. </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKristina_Minor2014" class="citation book cs1">Kristina Minor (2014). Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii. Oxford University Press. p. 212. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199684618" title="Special:BookSources/978-0199684618"><bdi>978-0199684618</bdi></a>. <q>Despite the best efforts of scholars, we have essentially no direct evidence of female homoerotic love in Rome: the best we can do is a collection of hostile literary and technical treatments ranging from Phaedrus to Juvenal to the medical writers and Church fathers, all of which condemn sex between women as low-class, immoral, barbarous, and disgusting.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Graffiti+and+the+Literary+Landscape+in+Roman+Pompeii&rft.pages=212&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0199684618&rft.au=Kristina+Minor&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Skinner, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture, p. 69 </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFChristopher_A._Faraone2001" class="citation book cs1">Christopher A. Faraone (2001). Ancient Greek Love Magic. Harvard University Press. p. 148. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674006966" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674006966"><bdi>978-0674006966</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Greek+Love+Magic&rft.pages=148&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0674006966&rft.au=Christopher+A.+Faraone&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> Thomas A.J. McGinn, Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 326. See the statement preserved by <a href="/wiki/Aulus_Gellius" title="Aulus Gellius">Aulus Gellius</a> 9.12. 1 that " it was an injustice to bring force to bear against the body of those who are free" (vim in corpus liberum non aecum ... adferri). </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Eva_Cantarella" title="Eva Cantarella">Eva Cantarella</a>, Bisexuality in the Ancient World (Yale University Press, 1992, 2002, originally published 1988 in Italian), p. xii. </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Fantham" title="Elaine Fantham">Elaine Fantham</a>, "The Ambiguity of Virtus in Lucan's Civil War and Statius' Thebiad," Arachnion 3; Andrew J.E. Bell, "Cicero and the Spectacle of Power," Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), p. 9; Edwin S. Ramage, "Aspects of Propaganda in the De bello gallico: Caesar’s Virtues and Attributes," Athenaeum 91 (2003) 331–372; Myles Anthony McDonnell, Roman manliness: virtus and the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2006) passim; Rhiannon Evans, Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome (Routledge, 2008), pp. 156–157. </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> Davina C. Lopez, "Before Your Very Eyes: Roman Imperial Ideology, Gender Constructs and Paul's Inter-Nationalism," in Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (Brill, 2007), pp. 135–138. </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. xi; Marilyn B. Skinner, introduction to Roman Sexualities (Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 11. </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> Craig A. Williams, Roman Homosexuality (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 18. </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Langlands" title="Rebecca Langlands">Rebecca Langlands</a>, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 13. </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> For further discussion of how sexual activity defines the free, respectable citizen from the slave or "un-free" person, see <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Master-slave_relations" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Master-slave relations in ancient Rome</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (Oxford University Press, 1983, 1992), p. 225. </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> Catharine Edwards, "Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome," in Roman Sexualities, pp. 67–68. </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. xi; Skinner, introduction to Roman Sexualities, p. 11. </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, pp. xi–xii; Skinner, introduction to Roman Sexualities, pp. 11–12. </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> Amy Richlin, "Sexuality in the Roman Empire," in A Companion to the Roman Empire (Blackwell, 2006), p. 329. The lower classes (humiliores) were subject to harsher penalties than the elite (honestiores). </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> This is a theme throughout Carlin A. Barton, The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster (Princeton University Press, 1993). </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, p. 33. "Whatever the relationship between the poetry and the reality, it is a fact that poems to pueri are as common as poems to mistresses, and are similar in tone." </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., pp. 36–39. </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. 120; Edward Courtney, The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 75. </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacMullen" title="Ramsay MacMullen">Ramsay MacMullen</a>, "Roman Attitudes to Greek Love," Historia 31.4 (1982), pp. 484–502. </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., pp. 16, 327, 328. </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., pp. 70–78. </li> <li id="cite_note-w23-25">^ <a href="#cite_ref-w23_25-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-w23_25-1">b</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., p. 23. </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., p. 24. </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., p. 19. </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institutio_Oratoria" title="Institutio Oratoria">Institutio Oratoria</a>, 10.1.93. </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. 154. </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, 2nd ed., p. 12. </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a>, Carmina 24, 48, 81, 99. </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Pollini" title="John Pollini">John Pollini</a>, "The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver," Art Bulletin 81.1 (1999), p. 28. </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a> Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.1052–1056). 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Orient-Occident 6–2 (1996): 697–720, at 701. </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. 125. </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a> Catullus, Carmen 61, lines 119–143. </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a> Butrica, "Some Myths and Anomalies in the Study of Roman Sexuality," pp. 218, 224. </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 534; Ronnie Ancona, "(Un)Constrained Male Desire: An Intertextual Reading of Horace Odes 2.8 and Catullus Poem 61," in Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), p. 47; Mark Petrini, The Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil (University of Michigan Press, 1997), pp. 19–20. </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 229. note 260: Martial 6.39.12-4: "quartus cinaeda fronte, candido voltu / ex concubino natus est tibi Lygdo: / percide, si vis, filium: nefas non est." </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, pp. 125–126; Robinson Ellis, A Commentary on Catullus (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 181; Petrini, The Child and the Hero, p. 19. </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institutio_Oratoria" title="Institutio Oratoria">Institutio Oratoria</a> 1.2.8, who disapproves of consorting with either concubini or "girlfriends" (amicae) in front of one's children. <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_MacMullen" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramsey MacMullen">Ramsey MacMullen</a>, "Roman Attitudes to Greek Love," Historia 31 (1982), p. 496. </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 24, citing Martial 8.44.16-7: tuoque tristis filius, velis nolis, cum concubino nocte dormiet prima. 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"Desperately Different? Delicia Children in the Roman Household". In David L. Balch; Carolyn Osiek (eds.). Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 318. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0802839862" title="Special:BookSources/978-0802839862"><bdi>978-0802839862</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Desperately+Different%3F+Delicia+Children+in+the+Roman+Household&rft.btitle=Early+Christian+Families+in+Context%3A+An+Interdisciplinary+Dialogue&rft.pages=318&rft.pub=William+B.+Eerdmans+Publishing+Company&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0802839862&rft.au=Christian+Laes&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a> Alison Keith, "Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus," in Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, p. 196. </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><a href="#cite_ref-129">^</a> Fernando Navarro Antolín, Lygdamus. Corpus Tibullianum III.1–6: Lygdami Elegiarum Liber (Brill, 1996), pp. 304–307. </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a> Vioque, Martial, Book VII, p. 131. </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a> William Fitzgerald, Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 54. </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a> As at <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, Satire 1.3.45 and <a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a>, Life of Caligula 13, as noted by Dorota M. Dutsch, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 55. See also <a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, Poenulus 1292, as noted by Richard P. Saller, "The Social Dynamics of Consent to Marriage and Sexual Relations: The Evidence of Roman Comedy," in Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies (Dumbarton Oaks, 1993), p. 101. </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a> The words pullus and puer may derive from the same Indo-European root; see Martin Huld, entry on "child," Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), p. 107. </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Amy_Richlin" title="Amy Richlin">Amy Richlin</a>, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (Oxford University Press, 1983, 1992), p. 289. </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius_Festus" title="Sextus Pompeius Festus">Festus</a> p. 285 in the 1997 <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_Teubneriana" title="Bibliotheca Teubneriana">Teubner</a> edition of Lindsay; Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 17; Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité (Jérôme Millon, 2003 reprint, originally published 1883), p. 47. </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a> Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, p. 289. </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a> Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, p. 289, finds Eburnus's reputation as "Jove's chick" and his later excessive severity against the impudicitia of his son to be "thought-provoking". </li> <li id="cite_note-138"><a href="#cite_ref-138">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Pro Balbo 28; <a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a> 6.1.5–6; Pseudo-Quintilian, Decl. 3.17; <a href="/wiki/Orosius" title="Orosius">Orosius</a> 5.16.8; <a href="/wiki/T.R.S._Broughton" class="mw-redirect" title="T.R.S. Broughton">T.R.S. Broughton</a>, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 549; Gordon P. Kelly, A History of Exile in the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 172–173; Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, p. 289. </li> <li id="cite_note-139"><a href="#cite_ref-139">^</a> Williams, Roman Sexuality, p. 17. </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a> As at <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">Metamorphoses</a> 9.7; <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, Pro Caelio 36 (in reference to his personal enemy <a href="/wiki/Clodius_Pulcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Clodius Pulcher">Clodius Pulcher</a>); Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), pp. 191–192; Katherine A. Geffcken, Comedy in the Pro Caelio (Bolchazy-Carducci, 1995), p. 78. </li> <li id="cite_note-141"><a href="#cite_ref-141">^</a> Juvenal, Satire 6.36–37; Erik Gunderson, "The Libidinal Rhetoric of Satire," in The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 231. </li> <li id="cite_note-auto3-142">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto3_142-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto3_142-1">b</a> Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, p. 169. </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a> Glossarium codicis Vatinici, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Corpus_Glossarum_Latinarum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corpus Glossarum Latinarum (page does not exist)">Corpus Glossarum Latinarum</a> IV p. xviii; see Georg Götz, Rheinisches Museum 40 (1885), p. 327. </li> <li id="cite_note-144"><a href="#cite_ref-144">^</a> RIchlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 531. </li> <li id="cite_note-145"><a href="#cite_ref-145">^</a> RIchlin, The Garden of Priapus, pp. 92, 98, 101. </li> <li id="cite_note-146"><a href="#cite_ref-146">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a>, Life of the Divine Julius 52.3; Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 532. </li> <li id="cite_note-147"><a href="#cite_ref-147">^</a> As quoted by Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. 99. </li> <li id="cite_note-148"><a href="#cite_ref-148">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, p. 100. </li> <li id="cite_note-149"><a href="#cite_ref-149">^</a> Primarily Amy Richlin, as in "Not before Homosexuality." </li> <li id="cite_note-150"><a href="#cite_ref-150">^</a> Plautus, Curculio 482-84 </li> <li id="cite_note-151"><a href="#cite_ref-151">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 201. </li> <li id="cite_note-152"><a href="#cite_ref-152">^</a> As summarized by John R. Clarke, "Representation of the Cinaedus in Roman Art: Evidence of 'Gay' Subculture," in Same-sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity, p. 272. </li> <li id="cite_note-153"><a href="#cite_ref-153">^</a> Martial 1.24 and 12.42; Juvenal 2.117–42. Williams, Roman Homosexuality, pp. 28, 280; Karen K. Hersh, The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 36; Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 151ff. </li> <li id="cite_note-auto4-154">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto4_154-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto4_154-1">b</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 280. </li> <li id="cite_note-155"><a href="#cite_ref-155">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dio_Cassius" class="mw-redirect" title="Dio Cassius">Dio Cassius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aurelius_Victor" title="Aurelius Victor">Aurelius Victor</a> are the sources cited by Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 279. </li> <li id="cite_note-auto5-156">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto5_156-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto5_156-1">b</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 279. </li> <li id="cite_note-157"><a href="#cite_ref-157">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, pp. 278–279, citing Dio Cassius and <a href="/wiki/Aelius_Lampridius" class="mw-redirect" title="Aelius Lampridius">Aelius Lampridius</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-158"><a href="#cite_ref-158">^</a> Dio Cassius 63.22.4; Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 285. </li> <li id="cite_note-159"><a href="#cite_ref-159">^</a> Cicero, Phillippics 2.44, as quoted by Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 279. </li> <li id="cite_note-160"><a href="#cite_ref-160">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 561. </li> <li id="cite_note-161"><a href="#cite_ref-161">^</a> As recorded in a fragment of the speech De Re Floria by <a href="/wiki/Cato_the_Elder" title="Cato the Elder">Cato the Elder</a> (frg. 57 Jordan = <a href="/wiki/Aulus_Gellius" title="Aulus Gellius">Aulus Gellius</a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/la:Noctes_Atticae/Liber_IX#XII." class="extiw" title="s:la:Noctes Atticae/Liber IX">9.12</a>.7), as noted and discussed by Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 561. </li> <li id="cite_note-162"><a href="#cite_ref-162">^</a> Digest 48.6.3.4 and 48.6.5.2. </li> <li id="cite_note-163"><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," pp. 562–563. See also Digest 48.5.35 [34] on legal definitions of rape that included boys. </li> <li id="cite_note-164"><a href="#cite_ref-164">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," pp. 558–561. </li> <li id="cite_note-165"><a href="#cite_ref-165">^</a> Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, pp. 99, 103; McGinn, Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law, p. 314. </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><a href="#cite_ref-166">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, pp. 104–105. </li> <li id="cite_note-167"><a href="#cite_ref-167">^</a> Digest 3.1.1.6, as noted by Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 559. </li> <li id="cite_note-168"><a href="#cite_ref-168">^</a> Richlin, The Garden of Priapus, pp. 27–28, 43 (on Martial), 58, et passim. </li> <li id="cite_note-169"><a href="#cite_ref-169">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, p. 20; Skinner, introduction to Roman Sexualities, p. 12; Amy Richlin, "The Meaning of irrumare in Catullus and Martial," Classical Philology 76.1 (1981) 40–46. </li> <li id="cite_note-170"><a href="#cite_ref-170">^</a> Williams, Roman Homosexuality, pp. 27, 76 (with an example from <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a> 2.60.2. </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><a href="#cite_ref-171">^</a> Catharine Edwards, The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 55–56. </li> <li id="cite_note-172"><a href="#cite_ref-172">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a> 6.1; Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 564. </li> <li id="cite_note-173"><a href="#cite_ref-173">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 564. </li> <li id="cite_note-174"><a href="#cite_ref-174">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a>, Institutio oratoria 4.2.69–71; Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 565. </li> <li id="cite_note-175"><a href="#cite_ref-175">^</a> Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 565, citing the same passage by Quintilian. </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a> Men of the governing classes, who would have been officers above the rank of <a href="/wiki/Centurion" title="Centurion">centurion</a>, were exempt. Pat Southern, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 144; Sara Elise Phang, The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.–A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army (Brill, 2001), p. 2. </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a> Phang, The Marriage of Roman Soldiers, p. 3. </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a> Sara Elise Phang, Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 93. </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a> Phang, Roman Military Service, p. 94. See section above on <a href="#Male–male_rape">male rape</a>: Roman law recognized that a soldier might be raped by the enemy, and specified that a man raped in war should not suffer the loss of social standing that an infamis did when willingly undergoing penetration; Digest 3.1.1.6, as discussed by Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 559. </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a> Thomas A.J. McGinn, Prostitution, Sexuality and the Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 40. </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><a href="#cite_ref-181">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Histories_(Polybius)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Histories (Polybius)">Histories</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html#37">6.37.9</a> (translated as <a href="/wiki/Bastinado" class="mw-redirect" title="Bastinado">bastinado</a>). </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a> Phang, The Marriage of Roman Soldiers, pp. 280–282. </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><a href="#cite_ref-183">^</a> Phang, Roman Military Service, p. 97, citing among other examples Juvenal, Satire 14.194–195. </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a> The name is given elsewhere as Plotius. </li> <li id="cite_note-185"><a href="#cite_ref-185">^</a> Plutarch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html#14">Life of Marius 14.4–8</a>; see also Valerius Maximus 6.1.12; Cicero, Pro Milone 9, in Dillon and Garland, Ancient Rome, p. 380; and <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a> 16.4. Discussion by Phang, Roman Military Service, pp. 93–94, and The Marriage of Roman Soldiers, p. 281; Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, pp. 105–106. </li> <li id="cite_note-Clarke_p244-186"><a href="#cite_ref-Clarke_p244_186-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJohn_R_Clarke1998" class="citation book cs1">John R Clarke (1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520229044/looking-at-lovemaking">Looking at Lovemaking</a>. University of California Press. p. 244. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520229044" title="Special:BookSources/9780520229044"><bdi>9780520229044</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Looking+at+Lovemaking&rft.pages=244&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=9780520229044&rft.au=John+R+Clarke&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucpress.edu%2Fbook%2F9780520229044%2Flooking-at-lovemaking&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-2007_Brisbane-187"><a href="#cite_ref-2007_Brisbane_187-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFishburn2007" class="citation conference cs1">Fishburn, Geoffrey (11 July 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220417140817/http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn58/HETSA2007%20Complete.pdf">"Is that a Spintria in your Pocket, or Are You Just Pleased to See Me?"</a> (PDF). Regarding the Past. 20th Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. Brisbane: University of Queensland Printery. pp. 225–236. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781864998979" title="Special:BookSources/9781864998979"><bdi>9781864998979</bdi></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htnf/htn58/HETSA2007%20Complete.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 17 April 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=conference&rft.atitle=Is+that+a+Spintria+in+your+Pocket%2C+or+Are+You+Just+Pleased+to+See+Me%3F&rft.btitle=Regarding+the+Past&rft.place=Brisbane&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E225-%3C%2Fspan%3E236&rft.pub=University+of+Queensland+Printery&rft.date=2007-07-11&rft.isbn=9781864998979&rft.aulast=Fishburn&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heterodoxnews.com%2Fhtnf%2Fhtn58%2FHETSA2007%2520Complete.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><a href="#cite_ref-188">^</a> CIL 4, 9027; translation from Hubbard, Homosexuality, 423 </li> <li id="cite_note-189"><a href="#cite_ref-189">^</a> Petronius: Satyricon </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><a href="#cite_ref-190">^</a> Aelius Lampridius: <a href="/wiki/Historia_Augusta" title="Historia Augusta">Scripta Historia Augusta</a>, Commodus, 10.9 </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a> The Latin joke is hard to translate: Ausonius says that two men are committing <a href="/wiki/Stuprum" class="mw-redirect" title="Stuprum">stuprum</a>, a sex crime; "sin" is generally a Christian concept, but since Ausonius was at least nominally a Christian, "sin" may capture the intention of the wordplay. </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius">Ausonius</a>, Epigram 43 Green (39); Matthew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity (University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 92. </li> <li id="cite_note-193"><a href="#cite_ref-193">^</a> Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.727, 733–4, as cited by Richlin, "Sexuality in the Roman Empire," p. 346. </li> <li id="cite_note-194"><a href="#cite_ref-194">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Bernadette_Brooten" title="Bernadette Brooten">Bernadette J. Brooten</a>, Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 1. </li> <li id="cite_note-graff-195">^ <a href="#cite_ref-graff_195-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-graff_195-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-graff_195-2">c</a> Craig A. Williams, “Sexual Themes in Greek and Latin Graffiti,” in A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard, 493–508 (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). </li> <li id="cite_note-196"><a href="#cite_ref-196">^</a> The Latin indicates that the I is of <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">feminine gender</a>; <a href="/wiki/CIL_4.5296" title="CIL 4.5296">CIL 4.5296</a>, as cited by Richlin, "Sexuality in the Roman Empire," p. 347. </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><a href="#cite_ref-197">^</a> Brooten, Love between Women, p. 4. </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><a href="#cite_ref-198">^</a> Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 5. </li> <li id="cite_note-199"><a href="#cite_ref-199">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMercer2016" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Kobena_Mercer" title="Kobena Mercer">Mercer, Kobena</a> (2016). Travel & See: Black Diasporic Art Practices Since the 1980s. Durham: Duke University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8223-7451-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8223-7451-0"><bdi>978-0-8223-7451-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Travel+%26+See%3A+Black+Diasporic+Art+Practices+Since+the+1980s&rft.place=Durham&rft.pub=Duke+University+Press&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0-8223-7451-0&rft.aulast=Mercer&rft.aufirst=Kobena&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a> Jonathan Walters, "Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought," pp. 30–31, and Pamela Gordon, "The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Why Is Sappho a Man?," p. 283, both in Roman Sexualities; John R. Clarke, "Look Who's Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the Suburban Baths at Pompeii," both in The Roman Gaze, p. 168. </li> <li id="cite_note-201"><a href="#cite_ref-201">^</a> Richlin, "Sexuality in the Roman Empire," p. 351. </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><a href="#cite_ref-202">^</a> Diana M. Swancutt, "Still before Sexuality: 'Greek' Androgyny, the Roman Imperial Politics of Masculinity and the Roman Invention of the tribas," in Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (Brill, 2007), pp. 11–12. </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><a href="#cite_ref-203">^</a> Martial 1.90 and 7.67, 50; Richlin, "Sexuality in the Roman Empire," p. 347; John R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.–A.D. 250 (University of California Press, 1998, 2001), p. 228. </li> <li id="cite_note-204"><a href="#cite_ref-204">^</a> Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking, p. 228. </li> <li id="cite_note-205"><a href="#cite_ref-205">^</a> Ovid adduces the story of Hercules and Omphale as an explanation for the ritual nudity of the <a href="/wiki/Lupercalia" title="Lupercalia">Lupercalia</a>; see <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Male_nudity" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">"Male nudity in ancient Rome"</a> and Richard J. King, Desiring Rome: Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti (Ohio State University Press, 2006), pp. 185, 195, 200, 204. </li> <li id="cite_note-206"><a href="#cite_ref-206">^</a> Digest 34.2.23.2, as cited by Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 540. </li> <li id="cite_note-207"><a href="#cite_ref-207">^</a> Edwards, "Unspeakable Professions," p. 81. </li> <li id="cite_note-208"><a href="#cite_ref-208">^</a> Cum virginali mundo clam pater: Kelly Olson, "The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl," in Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 147. </li> <li id="cite_note-209"><a href="#cite_ref-209">^</a> Digest 34.2.33, as cited by Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 540. </li> <li id="cite_note-210"><a href="#cite_ref-210">^</a> See above under "male–male rape." </li> <li id="cite_note-211"><a href="#cite_ref-211">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a>, Controversia 5.6; Richlin, "Not before Homosexuality," p. 564. </li> <li id="cite_note-212"><a href="#cite_ref-212">^</a> Stephen O. Murray, Homosexualities (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 298–303; Mary R. Bachvarova, "Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lamentation in Cross-Cultural Perspective," in Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 19, 33, 36. </li> <li id="cite_note-213"><a href="#cite_ref-213">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Macrobius" title="Macrobius">Macrobius</a>, Saturnalia 3.8.2. Macrobius says that Aristophanes called this figure Aphroditos. </li> <li id="cite_note-214"><a href="#cite_ref-214">^</a> Venerem igitur almum adorans, sive femina sive mas est, as quoted by Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.8.3. </li> <li id="cite_note-215"><a href="#cite_ref-215">^</a> Dominic Montserrat, "Reading Gender in the Roman World," in Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity, and Power in the Roman Empire (Routledge, 2000), pp. 172–173. </li> <li id="cite_note-216"><a href="#cite_ref-216">^</a> John Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.–A.D. 250 (University of California Press, 2001), pp. 50–55. </li> <li id="cite_note-217"><a href="#cite_ref-217">^</a> Pliny, Natural History 7.34: gignuntur et utriusque sexus quos hermaphroditos vocamus, olim androgynos vocatos; <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Dasen" title="Véronique Dasen">Véronique Dasen</a>, "Multiple Births in Graeco-Roman Antiquity," Oxford Journal of Archaeology 16.1 (1997), p. 61. </li> <li id="cite_note-Philostratus-218"><a href="#cite_ref-Philostratus_218-0">^</a> Philostratus, VS 489 </li> <li id="cite_note-219"><a href="#cite_ref-219">^</a> Alastair J.L. Blanshard, "Roman Vice," in Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 1–88. </li> <li id="cite_note-220"><a href="#cite_ref-220">^</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Boswell" title="John Boswell">John Boswell</a>, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 70. </li> <li id="cite_note-221"><a href="#cite_ref-221">^</a> Michael Groneberg, "Reasons for Homophobia: Three Types of Explanation," in Combatting Homophobia: Experiences and Analyses Pertinent to Education (LIT Verlag, 2011), p. 193. </li> <li id="cite_note-222"><a href="#cite_ref-222">^</a> Codex Theodosianus 9.7.3 (4 December 342), introduced by the sons of Constantine in 342. </li> <li id="cite_note-223"><a href="#cite_ref-223">^</a> Christopher Records, "When Sex Has Lost its Significance: Homosexuality, Society, and Roman Law in the 4th Century", in UCR Undergraduate Research Journal, Volume IV (June 2010)<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ugrj.ucr.edu/journal/volume4/christopher_records.pdf">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-224"><a href="#cite_ref-224">^</a> Groneberg, "Reasons for Homophobia," p. 193. </li> <li id="cite_note-225"><a href="#cite_ref-225">^</a> Michael Brinkschröde, "Christian Homophobia: Four Central Discourses," in Combatting Homophobia, p. 166. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Literature">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Boswell" title="John Boswell">Boswell, John</a>. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Esp. pp. 61–87.</li> <li>Clarke, John R. “Sexuality and Visual Representation.” In A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard, 509–33. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGazzarriWeiner2023" class="citation book cs1">Gazzarri, Tommaso; Weiner, Jesse (2023). Searching for the cinaedus in ancient Rome. Leiden; Boston: Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789004548374" title="Special:BookSources/9789004548374"><bdi>9789004548374</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Searching+for+the+cinaedus+in+ancient+Rome&rft.place=Leiden%3B+Boston&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=9789004548374&rft.aulast=Gazzarri&rft.aufirst=Tommaso&rft.au=Weiner%2C+Jesse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHomosexuality+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Hubbard, Thomas K., ed. Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-23430-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-23430-8">0-520-23430-8</a></li> <li>Lelis, Arnold A., <a href="/wiki/William_Armstrong_Percy_III" title="William Armstrong Percy III">William A. Percy</a>, and Beert C. Verstraete. The Age of Marriage in Ancient Rome. <a href="/wiki/Lewiston,_New_York" title="Lewiston, New York">Lewiston, New York</a>: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Mellen_Press" title="Edwin Mellen Press">Edwin Mellen Press</a>, 2003.</li> <li>Skinner, Marilyn B. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.</li> <li>Williams, Craig. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.</li> <li>Williams, Craig. 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBTQ_history" title="Timeline of LGBTQ history">Timelines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em">By period</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_years_in_LGBTQ_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="List of years in LGBTQ rights">List of years in LGBTQ rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Table_of_years_in_LGBTQ_rights" title="Table of years in LGBTQ rights">table</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_firsts_by_year" title="List of LGBTQ firsts by year">Firsts by year</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_firsts_by_year_(2010s)" title="List of LGBTQ firsts by year (2010s)">2010s</a></li></ul></li> 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Pacific Islander diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_African_and_diasporic_LGBT_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of African and diasporic LGBT history">African and diaspora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:8em">Region</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of LGBT history in Canada">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of LGBT history in Germany">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of LGBT history in South Africa">South African</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history_in_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of LGBT history in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany" title="Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_gay_men_in_the_United_States" title="History of gay men in the United States">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_lesbianism" title="History of lesbianism">Lesbians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbians_in_France&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lesbians in France (page does not exist)">France</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbiennes_en_France" class="extiw" title="fr:Lesbiennes en France">fr</a>] <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesbian_immigrants_in_France&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lesbian immigrants in France (page does not 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