Adelphopoiesis

He says the ceremony that Boswell describes, called the Adelphopoiesis, the making of brothers, was never meant as a marriage.

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Only its always been known that their ceremony wasn’t a marriage at all, it was a sort of blood-brother ceremony called the Adelphopoiesis.

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