[207] _Festus_, p. 7., Alicariae meretrices appellabantur in Campania solitae ante pistrina alicariorum versari quaestus gratia. (Harlots were called alicariae (spelt-mill girls) in Campania, being accustomed to ply for gain in front of the mills of the spelt-millers).—_Plautus_, Poenul., I. 2. 54., Prosedas, pistorum amicas, reliquias alicarias. (Common strumpets, bakers’ mistresses, refuse of the spelt-mill girls).
Illa Lesbia, quam Catullus unam Plusquam se atque suos amavit omnes, Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis Glubit magnanimos Remi nepotes.
(The fair Lesbia, that Catullus loved above all women, more than himself and all his friends, now at cross-ways and in alleys skins the high-souled sons of Remus). We see from this that it was partly such freed-women girls that, past their prime and come down in the world, no longer visited by rich admirers, had to seek their living on the streets.—_Plautus_, Cistell.,
Intro ad bonam meretricem; adstat ea in via Sola; prostibula sane est.
(I am going in to a “good” harlot; _she_ stands in the road alone,—she is surely a common whore).—_Plautus_, Sticho: Prostibuli est stantem stanti suavium dare, (It’s a strumpet’s way to give a kiss standing to a standing lover); whence it might be concluded that only street-whores were called “Prostibula”.—_Prudentius_, Peristeph., XIV. 38.,
Sic elocutam publicitus iubet Flexu in plutea sistere virginem.
(When she had uttered this public address, he bids the maiden stand at the turn of the street).
[209] _Martial_, I. 35., Abscondunt spurcas et monumenta lupas. (The monuments too hide filthy strumpets). Hence they were called _bustuariae_ (women that haunt tombs). _Martial_, III. 93., Admittat inter bustuarias moechas. (Let him admit her among the fornicators of the tombs). Comp. _Turnebus_, Advers., XIII. 19.
Scortator nimius, multaque libidine suetus Ruricolas vexare lupas, interque salicta, Et densas sepes obscoena cubilia inire,
(An inordinate fornicator, wont to vex the rustic harlots with multiplied lusts, and amidst the willow-plantations and thickset hedges to creep into foul lairs); where _Barth_, Advers., X. 2., for _ruricolas_ (haunting the country, rustic) would read _lustricolas_ (haunting wild dens),—those who prostituted themselves in wild-beasts’ dens, desert places. Hence also a brothel is called _lustrum_ (den) and _cellae lustrales_ (den-like chambers), and harlots’ hire _aurum lustrale_ (den-money).—_Credenus_, De Romulo et Remo: ὁ τοίνυν πάππος Ἀμούλιος διὰ τὴν πορνείαν παροξυνθεὶς εἰς τὰς ὕλας αὐτοὺς ἐξέθετο, οὓς εὑροῦσα γυνὴ πρόβατα νέμουσα ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἀνεθρέψατο. Εἴθιστο δὲ τοῖς ἐγχωρίοις λυκαίνας τὰς τοιαύτας καλεῖν γυναῖκας διὰ τὸ ἐπίπαν ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι μετὰ λύκων διατρίβειν, διὸ καὶ τούτους ὑπὸ λυκαίνης ἀνατραφῆναι μυθολογεῖται. (So their grandfather Amulius exasperated by his wife’s adultery took the children into the woods and exposed them there; but his wife, as she was pasturing sheep, found them, and reared them on the mountain. Now it was the custom of the inhabitants of those parts to call women of this kind “she-wolves” (λυκαίνας) on account of their living entirely on the mountains with the wolves, whence also the tale is told that these babes were fostered by a she-wolf).