Eunuchs
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eunuchs · a eunuch · a race of eunuchs · eunuchs disguised as females · eunuchs disguised as males · the eunuchs
in the texts
Letters
A group described with harsh insult as unfit to serve as witnesses.
And if there is need of witnesses, no slaves shall stand forth, nor a race of eunuchs, dishonoured and utterly ruined — that very thing:
Aphorisms
Castrated men discussed as a demographic group exempt from certain diseases
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Adversus Marcionem
Castrated men, invoked sarcastically as an example that undermines the requirement that only the unmarried be baptized.
With him the flesh is not baptized, unless it be virgin, unless widow, unless celibate, unless it has purchased baptism by divorce — as though even eunuchs were not born of marriage.
Adversus Valentinianos
Celibate members among the Valentinians whose status Tertullian uses to challenge the marriage sacrament doctrine.
And what will the eunuchs do whom we see among them?
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Two categories of eunuchs (disguised as women or as men) who practice mouth congress as a livelihood.
The following eight things are then done by the eunuch one after the other, viz.
There are two kinds of eunuchs, those that are disguised as males, and those that are disguised as females.
When, holding the lingam in his hand, the eunuch kisses it as if he were kissing the lower lip, it is called "kissing.
Cyropaedia
Men selected by Cyrus for personal service because he judges them especially dependent, faithful, and capable.
But he did not admit what many might very easily be inclined to suppose, that eunuchs are weaklings;
Recognizing these facts, he selected eunuchs for every post of personal service to him, from the door-keepers up.
And men, too, in the same way, become gentler when deprived of this desire, but not less careful of that which is entrusted to them;