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Headword: *spo/ros
Adler number: sigma,965
Translated headword: Sporos, Sporus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Nero's beloved; [the one] who was also called Sabina, not only on account of his likeness to [sc. Nero's] wife,[1] because he had been castrated, but [also] because [Sporos] married him just like she had.
Greek Original:
*spo/ros: o( *ne/rwnos e)rw/menos, o(\s kai\ *sabi/na e)kalei=to, ou) mo/non dia\ th\n o(moio/thta th=s gunaiko/s, o(/ti e)cete/tmhto, a)ll' o(/ti kai\ e)gh/mato au)tw=| w(/sper ka)kei/nh.
Notes:
From Cassius Dio 63.13.1. See also Suetonius, Nero 28-29.
On the emperor Nero see generally nu 254.
[1] Poppaea Sabina.
Keywords: biography; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 June 2004@08:59:34.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (modified translation, added cross-reference and keyword, set status) on 29 December 2004@19:42:49.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; cosmetics) on 1 January 2005@07:17:24.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 19 August 2011@07:36:39.
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