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What (who) is effeminate$23938$ - definition
ANCIENT GREEK RHETORICIAN
Apollonius the effeminate
Apollonius the Effeminate
Apollonius the Effeminate () was a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.
Effeminate
![In [[Virgil]]'s tale of the two young lovers, [[Nisus and Euryalus]], Euryalus was "beautiful" and had a close relationship with his mother, while Nisus was fast and skilled with weaponry.<ref>Louis Crompton, ''Homosexuality and Civilization'' (Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 84–86; Winn, ''The Poetry of War'', p. 162.</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nisos Euryalos Louvre LL450 n1.jpg?width=200 "In [[Virgil]]'s tale of the two young lovers, [[Nisus and Euryalus]], Euryalus was \"beautiful\" and had a close relationship with his mother, while Nisus was fast and skilled with weaponry.<ref>Louis Crompton, ''Homosexuality and Civilization'' (Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 84–86; Winn, ''The Poetry of War'', p. 162.</ref>")
![''The Younger Apollo Teaching Hyacinth to Play Lyra'' by [[Louis de Boullogne]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Younger Apollo Teaching Hyacinth to Play Lyra. Louis de Boullogne.jpg?width=200 "''The Younger Apollo Teaching Hyacinth to Play Lyra'' by [[Louis de Boullogne]]")
MANIFESTATION OF TRAITS IN A BOY OR MAN THAT ARE MORE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH FEMININITY
Effeminate; Effeminite; Effeminancy; Effeminacy (classical vice); Limp-wristed; Limp wristed; Tomgirl; Tom girl; Effeminiphobia; Femiphobia; Femboy; Girly boy; Feminine men; Feminine man; Feminine male; Feminine males; Femboi; Fem boy
·vi To grow womanish or weak.
II. Effeminate ·adj Womanlike; womanly; tender;
- in a good sense.
III. Effeminate ·vt To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to Weaken.
IV. Effeminate ·adj Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, ·etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
limp-wristed
MANIFESTATION OF TRAITS IN A BOY OR MAN THAT ARE MORE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH FEMININITY
Effeminate; Effeminite; Effeminancy; Effeminacy (classical vice); Limp-wristed; Limp wristed; Tomgirl; Tom girl; Effeminiphobia; Femiphobia; Femboy; Girly boy; Feminine men; Feminine man; Feminine male; Feminine males; Femboi; Fem boy
¦ adjective informal effeminate.
Wikipedia
Apollonius the Effeminate
Apollonius the Effeminate (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακος) was a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.
After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric. Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of Mark Antony.
