🪷 17 March is the Roman #Liberalia feast of manhood virility celebrating free speech and the male coming of age! On this day a young man donned the manly toga and drank wine in honor of #Bacchus. There is a popular misconception that Antinous was underage when his relationship with #Hadrian started. But there is no historical evidence that their relationship began before he was a legal adult. All sculptural art, without exception, depicts #Antinous as a mature male: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/01/antinous-gay-god.html 🪷