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  • The satiric -- and probably bisexual -- poet and social commentator Martial described how Bearded Callistratus married the rugged Afer in the usual form in which a virgin marries a husband.

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  • The satiric -- and probably bisexual -- poet and social commentator Martial described how Bearded Callistratus married the rugged Afer in the usual form in which a virgin marries a husband.

    Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011

  • For details concerning Callistratus, see Dindorf, op.cit. note ad. loc.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Callistratus, of the tribe Leontis, whom they captured in the country.

    Hellenica 2007

  • If his strategy was admirable, so too was the instinct which led him to advise the association with himself of two such colleagues as Callistratus and Chabrias — the former a popular orator but no great friend of himself politically,535 the other a man of high military reputation.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow haired, in aurum coruscante et crispante capillo, like that neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Upon this discourse of Callistratus, my father Lamprias, seeing the musicians grow bolder, said: That is not the reason, sir, and, in my opinion, the ancients were much out when they named Bacchus the son of Forgetfulness.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • When Callistratus the Sophist lived here, it was a hard matter to dine at any place besides his house; for he was so extremely courteous and obliging, that no man whom he invited to dinner could have the face to say him nay.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • At the Pythian games Callistratus, procurator of the

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Callistratus interrupted their discourse and said: Sirs, what do you think of that which was spoken against the Jews, that they abstain from the most lawful flesh?

    Symposiacs 2004

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