From Bride to Groom: Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, IX.4.7

Arescon

Name: Aulus Gellius  Date: 125 – 180 CE Region:  Rome [modern Italy] Citation:  Athenian Nights 9.4.15 [1]

Although intersex children were treated horrifically during the early days of the Roman Republic, in the Imperial period, they were treated better.   

Licinius Mucianus revealed that he saw with his own eyes at Argos a man by the name of Arescontes, who used to be Arescusa; they had even been married to a man, but once they grew a beard and became a man, they married a woman.

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[1] cf Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.36

Arescon

Licinius Mucianus prodidit visum esse a se Argis Arescontem, cui nomen Arescusae fuisset; nupsisse etiam; mox barbam et virilitatem provenisse uxoremque duxisse.

Aulus Gellius [125 – 180 CE] lived during the 2nd century CE. His work, the Attic Nights, are a collection of anecdotes about literature, history, and grammar.  From internal evidence, we can deduce that he was in the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius’ social circle, having close friendships with Herodes Atticus and Fronto.