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Overall I think this is a very womderful chapter! It's obvious that it is a topic close to your heart, and that shines through in the excellent research, attention and care that went into cultivating it. I learned so much just from editing it for you.
Two Pathic Subcultures in Ancient Rome
italicize the titles?
point looking
should it be ''for looking'' or "which looks" or something?
the act. He wh
etc
Martial to be overcompensating for their desire to be a pathicus. Do you
same with these
little understanding
perhaps compassion?
evidence of a subculture of Roman men who experience same-sex desire. Gracchus
one of these paragraphs shouldn't be italicized
, po
not sure, but I think a semicolon would be used here ;
does not come down
maybe say "was not preserved." or "was lost in the passage of time."
Here is Juvenal repeating the point.
Maybe: "Here Juvenal makes a similar point" or "Juvenal makes a statement with similar aspersions" etc
which I will go into below.
maybe make less personal? "which will discussed later on.."
other or unRoman
add quotations to these words for emphasis for the unfamiliar reader?
manly excellence
Add colon here?
Pathicus (Plural: Pathici )
Overall, formatting-wise, I have been italicizing the quotes and leaving the things we write normal. What would be your thoughts on formatting this section the same way?