text: It's fairly well-established that he had a male lover.  It really wasn't uncommon in those days.  In ancient Greece, older men often wooed a younger man.  The men would teach the youths wisdom and how to conduct themselves properly in society, and they would get some play for their troubles.  Read Plato's _Symposium_.  It's pretty awesome.  These guys all got drunk and started talking about love, and there was a speech or two claiming that the love between two men (and they don't mean chaste, platonic love) was higher than that between a man and a woman, because it was between equals.