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	*[[Young friend]] {{puce}} [[Loved boy]] {{puce}} [[Beloved]]		*[[Young friend]] {{puce}} [[Loved boy]] {{puce}} [[Beloved]]
	* [[Eromenos]] ~~{{puce}}~~		* [[Eromenos]]
	* [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]		* [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]
	* [[Sporus]]		* [[Sporus]]

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	*[[Boy]] {{puce}} [[:Category:Boys]]
	*[[Young friend]] {{puce}} [[Loved boy]] {{puce}} [[Beloved]]		*[[Young friend]] {{puce}} [[Loved boy]] {{puce}} [[Beloved]]
	*[[Boy (relationship)]]		* [[Eromenos]] {{puce}}
	* [[Eromenos]] {{puce}} [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]		* [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]
			* [[Sporus]]
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	==References in literature==		==References in literature==
			[[File:Roman coin celebrating pederasty.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Oral sex between a youth and an older male on a Roman coin or token probably used in a brothel.]]
	*In Plato's dialogue ''Gorgias'' (at 494d) Socrates uses the term in a conversation with Callicles contrasting appetites and contentment.		*In Plato's dialogue ''Gorgias'' (at 494d) Socrates uses the term in a conversation with Callicles contrasting appetites and contentment.
	*The word catamite appears widely but not necessarily frequently in the Latin literature of antiquity, from [[Plautus]] to [[Ausonius]]. It is sometimes a synonym for ''Puer delicatus'', "delicate boy". Cicero uses the term as an insult.<ref name="Cicero p. 95"/> The word became a general term for a boy raised for sexual purposes.		*The word catamite appears widely but not necessarily frequently in the Latin literature of antiquity, from [[Plautus]] to [[Ausonius]]. It is sometimes a synonym for ''Puer delicatus'', "delicate boy". Cicero uses the term as an insult.<ref name="Cicero p. 95"/> The word became a general term for a boy raised for sexual purposes.
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	*Anthony Burgess's 1980 novel ''Earthly Powers'' uses the word in its "outrageously provocative"<ref name="Tel">[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jameshiggs/4739703/An_arresting_opening/ An arresting opening] </ref> opening sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."		*Anthony Burgess's 1980 novel ''Earthly Powers'' uses the word in its "outrageously provocative"<ref name="Tel">[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jameshiggs/4739703/An_arresting_opening/ An arresting opening] </ref> opening sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
	*In the postapocalyptic landscape of Cormac McCarthy's novel ''The Road'', the narrator describes an army on the move on foot with "women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites." <ref>{{cite book\|last=McCarthy\|first=Cormac\|title=The Road\|year=2006\|publisher=Vintage International\|isbn=9780307387899\|pages=92}}</ref>		*In the postapocalyptic landscape of Cormac McCarthy's novel ''The Road'', the narrator describes an army on the move on foot with "women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites." <ref>{{cite book\|last=McCarthy\|first=Cormac\|title=The Road\|year=2006\|publisher=Vintage International\|isbn=9780307387899\|pages=92}}</ref>


	==References==		==References==

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	* [[Eromenos]] {{puce}} [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]		* [[Eromenos]] {{puce}} [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]

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	==References==		==References==
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			==See also==
			*[[Boy]] {{puce}} [[:Category:Boys]]
			*[[Young friend]] {{puce}} [[Loved boy]] {{puce}} [[Beloved]]
			*[[Boy (relationship)]]
			* [[Eromenos]] {{puce}} [[Paidika (dictionary)\|Paidika]]


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			{{History}}

	===Catamite===		===Catamite===

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	[[Image:Warren Cup Scene B 20thCentury london British Museum.jpg\|thumb\|250 px\|right\|[[Warren Cup]], depicting sexual intimacy between an "erastes" (a young man) or a "[[pederasty\|pederast]]" and his "eromenos" (his beloved boy) or "catamite"]]

	===Catamite===		===Catamite===

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	===Catamite===		===Catamite===
	In its ancient usage, a '''catamite'''<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty Article adapted from Wikipedia]</ref> (Latin ''catamitus'') was a [[boy\|pubescent boy]] who was the intimate companion of a young man [[Ancient Rome\|in ancient Rome]], usually in a [[Boylove in antiquity\|pederastic friendship]].<ref>Craig Williams, ''Roman Homosexuality'' (Oxford University Press, 1999, 2010), pp. 52–55, 75.</ref> It was usually a term of affection and literally means "[[Ganymede (mythology)\|Ganymede]]" in Latin. It was sometimes used as a term of insult.<ref name="Cicero p. 95">Cicero, frg. B29 of his orations and ''[[Philippics]]'' 2.77; Bertocchi and Maraldi, "''Menaechmus quidam''," p. 95.</ref> The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by [[Zeus]] to be his companion and cupbearer.<ref>Alastair J.L. Blanshard, "Greek Love," in ''Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), p. 131. Both [[Servius]], note to ''[[Aeneid]]'' 1.128, and [[Sextus Pompeius Festus\|Festus]] state clearly that ''Catamitus'' was the Latin equivalent of ''Ganymedes''; Festus says he was the ''concubinus'' of Jove. Alessandra Bertocchi and Mirka Maraldi, "''Menaechmus quidam:'' Indefinites and Proper Nouns in Classical and Late Latin," in ''Latin vulgaire–Latin tardif. Actes du VII<sup>ème</sup> Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif. Séville, 2–6 septembre 2003'' (University of Seville, 2006), p. 95, note 16.</ref> The [[Etruscan language\|Etruscan]] form of the name was ''Catmite'', from an alternate Greek form of the name, ''Gadymedes''.<ref>Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling, ''Etruscan Myths'' (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 73.</ref>		In its ancient usage, a '''catamite'''<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty Article adapted from Wikipedia]</ref> (Latin ''catamitus'') was a [[boy\|pubescent boy]] who was the intimate companion of a young man [[Ancient Rome\|in ancient Rome]], usually in a [[Boylove in antiquity\|pederastic friendship]].<ref>Craig Williams, ''Roman Homosexuality'' (Oxford University Press, 1999, 2010), pp. 52–55, 75.</ref> It was usually a term of affection and literally means "[[Ganymede (mythology)\|Ganymede]]" in Latin. It was sometimes used as a term of insult.<ref name="Cicero p. 95">Cicero, frg. B29 of his orations and ''[[Philippics]]'' 2.77; Bertocchi and Maraldi, "''Menaechmus quidam''," p. 95.</ref> The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus, the Latinized form of Ganymede, the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by [[Zeus]] to be his companion, lover, and cupbearer.<ref>Alastair J.L. Blanshard, "Greek Love," in ''Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), p. 131. Both [[Servius]], note to ''[[Aeneid]]'' 1.128, and [[Sextus Pompeius Festus\|Festus]] state clearly that ''Catamitus'' was the Latin equivalent of ''Ganymedes''; Festus says he was the ''concubinus'' of Jove. Alessandra Bertocchi and Mirka Maraldi, "''Menaechmus quidam:'' Indefinites and Proper Nouns in Classical and Late Latin," in ''Latin vulgaire–Latin tardif. Actes du VII<sup>ème</sup> Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif. Séville, 2–6 septembre 2003'' (University of Seville, 2006), p. 95, note 16.</ref> The [[Etruscan language\|Etruscan]] form of the name was ''Catmite'', from an alternate Greek form of the name, ''Gadymedes''.<ref>Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling, ''Etruscan Myths'' (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 73.</ref>

	===''Puer delicatus''===		===''Puer delicatus''===