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The Casting of the Wine by inabathrobe for Tevildo
Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF
20 Dec 2010
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Even Antinous has to grow up.
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He presses a kiss to Hadrian's collarbone. "I love you, too. Even though you're—" It comes out of Antinous' mouth before he can stop it. No, don’t tell the emperor that he's old.
Hadrian gives a little laugh. "Well, if you're too old to be anyone's beloved, then I am certainly rather too old to be anyone's lover. I won't tell if you don't."
Antinous nearly nineteen, and thinking he's too old -- cast aside. Hadrian as present as Antinous, whose perspective it is.