Roman emperor Domitian and Flavius Earinus - his favorite eunuch lover.
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Some excerpts from beautiful poem about Earinus by ancient authors.
Martial (from Epigrams, Book 9) A mirror advising his beauty & a sweet-smelling lock of hair - these are the presents set up as sacred to Pergamum's god by the palace-slave his master loves most, the boy whose name signifies "springtime". The land counting among its treasure such a gift is blessed, and needn't yearn for Ganymede's hair. (Statius, Silvae 3.4) ...a boy of incomparable beauty, outshining the stars, at play before the altar of the god. ....a wonderful gift for a leader of men. No commonplace duties await you. Your destiny is the palace, to be a slave for love. I've never seen, I swear, nor engendered anything so sweet the whole world over. Endymion will yield you place; Attis too, and the youth destroyed by fruitlessly loving an empty reflection on the pond. The sea-blue nymph would prefer to catch you & your water-jar, and drag you firmly under. You're beyond them all, boy. The only man more handsome is he to whom I'll give you."
Statius reports that the poem dedicated to the young eunuch was written at the latter's request. Modern scholars, however, are of the opinion that the order (probably given to Martial as well) must ultimately have come from Domitian himself, with Earinus serving as go-between. (Source: Wikipedia)
