“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander’s mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.
foal, mare, stallion, harem, castration, geld
Castrating Sex Offenders in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has rejected criticism from Europe's leading human
rights body, the Council of Europe, over its continued use of surgical
castration for male sex offenders.
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How do horses care for their young?
In the wild, horses live in herds. There are bachelor groups of stallions that are young or old or timid, and do not have any mares of their own. They have little contact with foals. Then there are herds made up of a stallion and the harem of mares he has collected. He will take good care of his mares, grooming them even when they are not in season. When their foals are born, the stallion is generally welcoming towards them, provided he knows they are his. However, a stallion may kill another stallion's foal... More
geld
castrate verb [T] 去勢
to remove the testicles of a male animal or human
castration
noun [U]
foal
(fōl)
n.
The young offspring of a horse or other equine animal, especially one under a year old.
intr.v., foaled, foal·ing, foals.
To give birth to a foal.
[Middle English fole, from Old English fola.]
━━ n., v. 子馬［ロバの子］（を産む）.Wikipedia article "Foal".
stallion
(stăl'yən)n. ━━ n. 種馬.
An adult male horse that has not been castrated, especially one kept for breeding.
[Middle English stalione (alteration of staloun), from Anglo-Norman estaloun, of Germanic origin.]
harem
(hâr'əm, hăr'-)n.
- A house or a section of a house reserved for women members of a Muslim household.
- The wives, concubines, female relatives, and servants occupying such a place.
- A group of women sexual partners for one man.
[Turkish, from Arabic ḥarīm, forbidden place, from ḥarama, to prohibit.]
━━ n. （イスラム教国の）ハレム, 婦人べや; ((複数扱い)) ハレムに住む女たち, (1匹の雄に保護される）雌の群れ.mare1
(mâr)n.A female horse or the female of other equine species.
[Middle English, alteration of Old English m[ymacr]re (influenced by forms of mearh, horse).]
━━ n. 雌馬; （ロバ，ラバなどの）雌.
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