
He argues that spado comes from a Greek verb meaning "to tear" and referred to eunuchs sex organs were removed.

Mathew Kuefler says that the terms used by the Romans for the various types of eunuchs were borrowed from the Greek. jurist) (Digest 50.16.128) uses spadones for the "sexually and generatively incapable." He says that the term could apply to eunuchs by castration. Others suffered some type of testicular disfigurement the nature of which earned them the labels thlibiae and thladiae.Ĭharles Leslie Murison says that Ulpian (a third century A.D. Some spadones were born that way - without strong sexual characteristics.

It is also one of the categories used in the Roman inheritance laws. "Spado is the generic name under which those who are spadones by birth as well as thlibiae, thlasiae and whatever other type of spado exists, are contained.'" These spadones are contrasted with castrati." Walter Stevenson argues that the term spado does not seem to have included those who were castrated.

Spado (plural: spadones) is the generic term for a variety of sub-types of asexual men.
