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Adamantius

Physiognomy II, 3
 

The characteristics of natural eunuchs are worse than those of other men. So most of them are savage, deceitful evildoers, each one more so than the last. Of the cut eunuchs, though, some characteristics change over at the same time as the cut, but most of their congenital nature remains.
 

Eunoúchois toîs ek fúseoos kakíoo seemeîa estin eè toîs állois anthroópois, kai hoos tò polú eisin oomófrones, doleroí, kakoûrgoi, héteroi dè hetéron mâllon. toôn dè tomioôn eunoúchoon énia metabállei háma teêi tomeêi seemeîa, tò dè pleîon teês suggennoûs fúseoos emménei.