![]() ![]() It was jocularly observed by some person, "that it would have been well for mankind, had such a wife fallen to the lot of his father Domitius." This Sporus he carried about with him in a litter round the solemn assemblies and fairs of Greece, and afterwards at Rome through the Sigillaria, dressed in the rich attire of an empress kissing him from time to time as they rode together. ![]() When the ceremony was over, he had him conducted like a bride to his own house, and treated him as his wife. He even went so far as to marry him, with all the usual formalities of a marriage settlement, the rose-coloured nuptial veil, and a numerous company at the wedding. ![]() He gelded the boy Sporus, and endeavoured to transform him into a woman. " had a boy named Sporus castrated and tried to transform him into an actual woman he married him in a regular wedding ceremony, with a dowry and a bridal veil, took him home in front of a great crowd, and treated him as his wife." Sporus was a young beautiful eunuch whom the Roman Emperor Nero favored and married to him. "The odd wedding celebration of the princeps with the handsome former slave Pythagoras gave the festivities an especially orgiastic accent." - Nero by Jurgen Malitz. Pythagoras, a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, was married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride. ![]()
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