[lbo-talk] Greece, was Bar-bar-bar Barian

[magcomm]

> What counted as "effete" among the Roman  
aristocracy was a Hellenism marked (as with 
Cicero's friend Atticus) by an *excessive* 
fondness for boys.

Hadrian effete?  Rats.  Also, wasn't he too 
considered an intellectual? (with fabulous 
taste in boys).

Brian