Meanings (ES + gloss)
eunuco
A castrated human male.
Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men.
eunuco
Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
Hence sawcy Eunuch peace, / she hath betraid me, / And shall dye the death.
I, and by heauen, one that will doe the deede, / Though Argus were her Eunuch and her garde.
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