[Verginius Rufus]

The emperor Nero even had a same-sex marriage (with a boy named Sporus, whom he had castrated). Someone joked that it would have been better for Rome if Nero's father Domitius had had that kind of marriage. (See Suetonius' Life of Nero, ch. 28.)

[Reily]

If I remember this right Sporus looked something like the wife Nero killed while in a maniacal rage.