David was a good student. He loved languages and especially Latin. He had a tutor not in order to get a better grade in class, but because he really liked reading Latin. He liked the stories.
Recently, David had become particularly interested in stories about homosexuality in Rome and in ancient Greece. Everybody knew that those Greek dudes were into young boys, but presumably Alexander the Great was gay, and just recently David had even read about Caesar... Then there was the story of the two army officers who were surprised by the enemy and killed while they were busy fucking!
It did turn David on quite a bit - these strong guys, dictators in fact, who privately were so submissive! But David also liked the stories because he really liked being fucked himself. Not that girls did not turn him on, but he really liked to play with his butt while masturbating - and he had finally managed to get an actually cock inside, a few times already! OMG, it was wonderful!
"So that's very good reading, David," David heard Mr. Hardy say. "Do you have any questions?"
Mr. Hardy was a very good teacher. He always brought interesting Latin stories to read. Not about the gay stuff, obviously, David had found that on his own on the internet. Although, wait, they had read about Zeus and Ganymede, Apollo and Hyacinth, and even the occasional naughty poem by Martial.
"Do you have any questions?"
"About this?"
"Well, yes. Or about something else we've read."
"Well... no, not about something we've read."
Tom Hardy smiled.
"Or about something else you have read?"
David smiled, a bit naughty and embarrassed at the same time.
"Well, OK... Who was Nicomedes?"
"Nicomedes? I don't know."
"Nicomedes of Bithynia. I read somewhere..."
"Oh, god, I know! You mean the guy who presumably fucked Caesar?"
David laughed, he felt a bit liberated. Actually, Mr. Hardy could be pretty direct about such things.
"Yes, him."
"Well, I mean, the king of Bithynia, obviously, that's in the north of Turkey, you know, where Pliny was governor later on."
"Do we know anything about him?"
"Not that I know. That story about Caesar is in Suetonius, I bet."
"Lives of the Caesars?"
"Yep. I think for some reason Caesar, when he was quite young, hung out with Nicomedes for such a long time that rumors started about them having an affair."
"Caesar was apparently nicknamed the queen of Bithynia!"
"Yes, the word in Latin is 'subigere', something like 'submit'. Caesar submitted Gaul, but Nicomedes submitted Caesar."
"Do you think it might be true?"
"I don't know, I mean, I wasn't there, thankfully!" Tom laughed.
Then, semi-seriously: "I suppose it's possible, sure."
David laughed. "Maybe that guy Nicomedes had a really big dick!"
Tom Hardy laughed too. "Well, who knows, maybe!"
"I mean, why else would Caesar have stayed with him?"
"Ha, I guess you have a point, David."
"I suppose Jules liked between his symplegades..."
Mr. Hardy laughed even more loudly.
"Well, you seem to be well-informed about those aspects of Roman life, David.
And about the poetic terminology."
"I read this poem from Martial where his wife offers her butt to him..."
"Oh, I know, and then he says that he prefers to do it with a boy!"
David laughed. "Yes! You know a lot about these things too, Mr. Hardy!"
"Well, there are only so many bits and pieces that are so explicit. The word for anal sex was presumably 'illud puerile', the boy thing, even when you did it with a girl. Apuleius has something about this sexy girl offering herself that way to her lover, that silly guy Lucius, who is later turned into a donkey."
"So presumably ass fucking was pretty much a known fact at the time?"
"I think you can safely assume that, yes. Of course it's hard to know if they did it for contraception, but I suppose that would only explain anal sex with women. And even then, that's not the impression one gets from the material."
"So you think they just liked it?"
"Well, many did, presumably, if you read Martial or Apuleius."
"But it was considered weird if a guy was the passive partner, right?"
"Well, yes, apparantly. But I doubt that it stopped anybody from doing it."
"It would't stop me!"
Tom smiled. He had never crossed his mind David might be gay, much less that liked to take a cock up his butt. But now that he knew it, it wasn't so hard to imagine. In fact, David was incredibly cute and quite gentle, although not at all insecure.
"I guess not."
"For example Jonathan," David went on. "You know him, right?"
"Jonathan Grosshans, you mean? Sure."
Jonathan Grosshans was in the same year as David, but thank god didn't take Latin. The boy was not terribly smart and, unlike David, hardly interested in learning anything at all. He was a very good soccer player, apparently, but Tom couldn't care less about that sort of thing.
"Well, he's obviously quite attractive, but he's pretty dumb, right?"
Mr. Hardy laughed. "I don't know about the attractive part..."
"Oh, you must see his dick, Mr. Hardy, it's really big and he gets rock hard erections!"
