
Hierocles, fearful that he would fall out of favor, had the cup bearers drug the wine of his rival and Zoticus, Melting gaze, replied "Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady." That night, however, Elagabalus was to be disappointed when Zoticus could not

With the usual salutation "My Lord Emperor, Hail," only to be admonished by the emperor, who bending his neck and looking up with a Hastened to Rome, where he immediately was made court chamberlain, he greeted Elagabalus Others in the size of his membrum virile. Another handsome athlete, Zoticus, was discovered who surpassed all Might please the emperor, especially those who were well-endowed. Indeed, agents frequented the wharves and public baths, seeking others who

Proudly displayed the black eyes he insisted on receiving. Calling him "husband" and contriving to be caught in adulterous trysts, Elagabalus Palace, where he was found to be even more captivating. When Hierocles, a charioteer in the arena, was thrown inįront of the emperor's box, his blond hair spilling out from under his helmet, Elagabalus immediately had the youth escorted to the Heliogabalus after the Syrian sun god that he tried to introduce as the supreme deity, his outrageous behavior and disdain for conventionĮlagabalus' transsexual proclivity is recounted in an anecdote by Cassius Dio. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was only fourteen years old when he became emperor of Rome in AD 218.
