Hobe Sound, Florida the area before European settlement. The Spanish pronounced Jove/Jobe as , which later evolved into the current spelling "Hobe". The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine (three-masted ship) "Reformation", sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency. The small Quaker party, including its most notable passenger, Jonathan Dickinson, encountered and received aid from the Jove Indians. Hobe Sound received its name by 1699, according to the Florida WPA Guide. Parts of
Homosexuality in ancient Rome discreet or more open: male concubines sometimes attended dinner parties with the man whose companion they were. Martial even suggests that a prized "concubinus" might pass from father to son as an especially coveted inheritance. A military officer on campaign might be accompanied by a "concubinus". Like the catamite or "puer delicatus", the role of the concubine was regularly compared to that of Ganymede, the Trojan prince abducted by Jove (Greek Zeus) to serve as his cupbearer. The "concubina", a female concubine who might be free, held a protected legal status under Roman law, but the "concubinus" did not, since