concubinus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →concubinus, concubini:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catamite; male paramour; kept man, one who lives in concubinage;
nom. sg.
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...iocatio, nec nuces pueris neget desertum domini audiens concubinus amorem. da nuces pueris, iners concubine! satis diu lusisti..."de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...tempore servum iussit et libertum qui fuisset eius concubinus, alterum se iugulare, alterum pyram incendere. Oppidani autem, simul..."
