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

magcomm magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jan 22 15:28:54 PST 2009



> 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



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