Characters Summed up in five quotes: Sporus

Characters summed up by five quotes.

Sporus, who seemingly cannot be summed up in one line quotes.

1) Sporus curled on the floor beside the couch, holding onto the emperor’s limp hand, playing the role of the concerned wife, wiping a damp cloth across his beloved’s brow and sighing with worry.

2) It was useless to try to argue with Sporus when he was in this mood. It was a sign of his condition, a compulsive need to have the last word and a flashy exit. So Alex and Mina let him flounce out and didn’t say a word, even when he trailed his fine purple dressing gown through the pool of urine

3) Centuries later some wise man would comment that “Hell is other people.” Sporus had discovered that hell was hundreds of mirror images of himself. Among the exotic and the alien Sporus did not shine, he did not radiate, there was no one to wonder in his light. He was horrifyingly ordinary.

4) Sporus spent an enjoyable morning enrapturing the Viminal locals with his daring escape from the Temple of the Great Mother; relating how the Galli pursued him down the garden wielding their sacrificial knives determined to prevent his escape and how he, a humble eunuch had outrun them; bravely scaling a forty foot high wall!

“It’s not just bulls they slaughter in that temple,” he told them, voice lowered for an increased level of confidence. “That’s why they sing so loud, it is to blot out their victim’s screams.”

5) Sporus had one very particular talent, one in which he positively excelled at, so much so that he harboured a great desire for that particular act to named after him. From Britannia to Babylonia he imagined men gathering in the bars and the cook shops and the wherever else they holed up for entertainment in the dour provinces, loudly boasting to their friends/relatives/drinking acquaintances of how their boyfriend/girlfriend/random prostitute performed wonderful Sporus. No one could accuse the eunuch of