Neophytus was a freedman of the Roman emperor

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. He was one of the four companions on the emperor's late journey in June 68, with

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Sporus Sporus was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero favored, had castrated, and married.Champlin, 2005, p.145Smith, 1849, p.897 Life Little is known about Sporus' background except that he was a youth to whom Nero took a liking. He may h ...

, and was with him at his death.

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