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Meaning & History
Latinized form of Sporos. This was the name of a young slave boy from the 1st century AD. The Roman emperor Nero had taken a liking to him, because he bore a striking resemblance to his late wife Poppaea Sabina. Nero subsequently had the boy castrated, after which he married him. He treated him as his wife, though in reality Sporus was actually his sex slave. After the death of Nero in 68 AD, Sporus continued to be used as a sex slave (most notably by the subsequent Roman emperors Otho and Vitellius) until his own death by suicide in 69 AD.