[FFranco]

In fact, homosexual acts were accepted among the Romans too. There was a saying about Julius Caesar that went something like this: “To every wife he was a husband, to every husband a wife.”

[PzLdr]

As I understand it, Romans didn’t consider the “pitcher” homosexual, only the “catcher”. That’s why the barb in the saying about Caesar used by his enemies was that he was the catcher. Started when he spent time as a young man at the court of King Mithridates.

At his triumph, after the Gallic campaign, the legionnaries preceding him in the parade sang a ditty warning all the Roman men to lock up their wives and daughters because Caesar was in town.

[Antoninus]

In fact, homosexual acts were accepted among the Romans too. There was a saying about Julius Caesar that went something like this: “To every wife he was a husband, to every husband a wife.”

This only happened in the late Republic and the practice was restricted mainly to the elites who were educated by Greek pedagogues.

There were still plenty of Romans who found the practice of sodomy and pederasty abhorrent.