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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146">Champlin, 2005, p.146</ref><ref name="Champlin108">Champlin, 2005, p.108-109</ref> In 69, Sporus became involved with Otho, the second of a rapid, violent succession of four emperors who vied for power during the chaos that followed Nero's death. (Otho had once been married to Poppaea, until Nero had forced their divorce.) </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146">Champlin, 2005, p.146</ref><ref name="Champlin108">Champlin, 2005, p.108-109</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Sporus''' was a young man who may have been a [[Catamite#Puer_delicatus|puer delicatus]] whom the Roman Emperor [[Nero]] allegedly favored, had castrated, and married.<ref name=Suetonius>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suet-nero-rolfe.html Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum—Nero, c. 110 C.E.]</ref><ref name="Dio">[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html Cassius Dio Roman History: LXII, 28 – LXIII, 12–13]</ref><ref name="Champlin145">Champlin, 2005, p.145</ref><ref name="smith">Smith, 1849, p.897</ref> The Roman historian Cassius Dio identifies Sporus as a freedman, a formerly enslaved person who had been released from slavery.<ref name="Dio" /><ref name="Champlin145" /> After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146">Champlin, 2005, p.146</ref><ref name="Champlin108">Champlin, 2005, p.108-109</ref> In 69, Sporus became involved with Otho, the second of a rapid, violent succession of four emperors who vied for power during the chaos that followed Nero's death. (Otho had once been married to Poppaea, until Nero had forced their divorce.) Following the death of Otho, His successor Vitellius, intended to use Sporus as a victim in a public entertainment; a fatal "re-enactment" of the Rape of Proserpina at a gladiator show. Sporus avoided this public humiliation by committing suicide.<ref name="smith" /><ref name="Champlin146"/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Sporus''' was a young man who may have been a [[Catamite#Puer_delicatus|puer delicatus]] whom the Roman Emperor [[Nero]] allegedly favored, had castrated, and married.<ref name=Suetonius>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suet-nero-rolfe.html Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum—Nero, c. 110 C.E.]</ref><ref name="Dio">[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html Cassius Dio Roman History: LXII, 28 – LXIII, 12–13]</ref><ref name="Champlin145">Champlin, 2005, p.145</ref><ref name="smith">Smith, 1849, p.897</ref> The Roman historian Cassius Dio identifies Sporus as a freedman, a formerly enslaved person who had been released from slavery.<ref name="Dio" /><ref name="Champlin145" /> After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146">Champlin, 2005, p.146</ref><ref name="Champlin108">Champlin, 2005, p.108-109</ref> In 69, Sporus became involved with Otho, the second of a rapid, violent succession of four emperors who vied for power during the chaos that followed Nero's death. (Otho had once been married to Poppaea, until Nero had forced their divorce.) Following the death of Otho, His successor Vitellius, intended to use Sporus as a victim in a public entertainment; a fatal "re-enactment" of the Rape of Proserpina at a gladiator show. Sporus avoided this public humiliation by committing suicide.<ref name="smith" /><ref name="Champlin146"/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Sporus''' was a young man who may have been a [[Catamite#Puer_delicatus|puer delicatus]] whom the Roman Emperor [[Nero]] allegedly favored, had castrated, and married.<ref name=Suetonius>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suet-nero-rolfe.html Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum—Nero, c. 110 C.E.]</ref><ref name="Dio">[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html Cassius Dio Roman History: LXII, 28 – LXIII, 12–13]</ref><ref name="Champlin145">Champlin, 2005, p.145</ref><ref name="smith">Smith, 1849, p.897</ref> The Roman historian Cassius Dio identifies Sporus as a freedman, a formerly enslaved person who had been released from slavery.<ref name="Dio" /><ref name="Champlin145" /> After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146" /><ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Champlin147</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8</del>" /></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Sporus''' was a young man who may have been a [[Catamite#Puer_delicatus|puer delicatus]] whom the Roman Emperor [[Nero]] allegedly favored, had castrated, and married.<ref name=Suetonius>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suet-nero-rolfe.html Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius: De Vita Caesarum—Nero, c. 110 C.E.]</ref><ref name="Dio">[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html Cassius Dio Roman History: LXII, 28 – LXIII, 12–13]</ref><ref name="Champlin145">Champlin, 2005, p.145</ref><ref name="smith">Smith, 1849, p.897</ref> The Roman historian Cassius Dio identifies Sporus as a freedman, a formerly enslaved person who had been released from slavery.<ref name="Dio" /><ref name="Champlin145" /> After Nero's death, Sporus was taken to the care of a Praetorian prefect named Nymphidius Sabinus], who had persuaded the Praetorian Guard to desert Nero. Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen.<ref name="Champlin146"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">>Champlin, 2005, p.146<</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>><ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Champlin108">Champlin, 2005, p.108</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">109</ref> In 69, Sporus became involved with Otho, the second of a rapid, violent succession of four emperors who vied for power during the chaos that followed Nero's death. (Otho had once been married to Poppaea, until Nero had forced their divorce.) Following the death of Otho, His successor Vitellius, intended to use Sporus as a victim in a public entertainment; a fatal "re-enactment" of the Rape of Proserpina at a gladiator show. Sporus avoided this public humiliation by committing suicide.<ref name="smith" /><ref name="Champlin146</ins>"/></div></td></tr>
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