{"title":"Sex on Capri","authors":"E. Champlin","doi":"10.1353/APA.2011.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses words notoriously coined to convey the \"dark pleasures\" of Tiberius Caesar in his last years on Capri (27-37 <small class=\"caps\">C.E. </small>). The <i>OLD</i> defines them thus: <i>sellarium</i> \"A privy\"; <i>sellarius</i> \"A type of male prostitute\"; <i>spintria</i> \"A type of male prostitute.\" These definitions are both wrong and misleading. <i>Sellaria</i> (<i>sic</i>) should be taken as a proper noun connoting \"The Brothel\"; <i>sellarius</i> does not exist; and <i>spintria</i> should be understood as \"bracelet worker,\" including both males and females. Real prostitution is not involved, but rather an extreme form of traditional elaborate private theatricals.","PeriodicalId":46223,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","volume":"61 1","pages":"315 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2011-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transactions of the American Philological Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/APA.2011.0009","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper discusses words notoriously coined to convey the "dark pleasures" of Tiberius Caesar in his last years on Capri (27-37 C.E. ). The OLD defines them thus: sellarium "A privy"; sellarius "A type of male prostitute"; spintria "A type of male prostitute." These definitions are both wrong and misleading. Sellaria (sic) should be taken as a proper noun connoting "The Brothel"; sellarius does not exist; and spintria should be understood as "bracelet worker," including both males and females. Real prostitution is not involved, but rather an extreme form of traditional elaborate private theatricals.
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