[141] How clean and neat they were can be gathered from the fact that a certain Phanostrata got the _sobriquet_ of Phtheiropyle (doorlouser), ἐπειδήπερ ἐπὶ τῆς θύρας ἑστῶσα ἐφθειρίζετο, (because she used to stand at the door and pick the lice off her).
[142] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. ch. 37. Comp. _Palmerius_, Exercitat. p. 523.
[143] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. ch. 27.—_Suidas_, s. v. χαμαιτύπη· ἡ πόρνη, ἀπὸ τοῦ χαμαὶ κειμένη ὀχεύεσθαι, (under the word χαμαιτύπη: harlot, from her copulating lying on the ground).
[144] Here they reckoned “Money for house-room”, ἐνοίκιον for στεγανόμιον (Pollux, Onomast. I. 75.), the same in fact as the _pretium mansionis_ (price of house-room) of the Romans in their inns. Comp. _Casaubon_, on Athenaeus I. ch. 14.
[146] _Zell_, “Ferienschriften,” (Holiday Papers), First Series. Freiburg 1826. No. 1., “Die Wirthshäuser der Alten,” (Inns of the Ancients), pp. 3-53.
[147] _Athenaeus_, Deipnosoph. bk. XIII. p. 567., Σὺ δὲ ὦ Σοφιστὰ, ἐν τοῖς καπηλείοις συναναφύρῃ οὐ μετὰ ἑταίρων, ἀλλὰ μετὰ ἑταιρῶν, _μαστροπευούσας_ περὶ ταυτὸν οὐκ ὀλίγας ἔχων. (But you, Sophist, wallow in the inns not with companions but with female-companions (hetaerae), keeping a host of women _pandaring_ for your pleasure).
[149] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 567.
[150] Areopagit. p. 350. ed. Wolf.—_Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 567., ἐν καπηλείῳ δὲ φαγεῖν ἢ πινεῖν οὐδεὶς οὐδ’ ἂν οἰκέτης ἐτόλμησεν. (But no one, not even a servant, would have dared to eat or drink in an inn).
[151] This can best be seen from the Speech of _Demosthenes_, In Neaeram. ed. H. Wolf. Bâle 1572. fol., p. 519., where we read as follows in the Latin translation: Iam peregrinam esse Neaeram, id vobis ab ipso primordio demonstrabo. Septem puellas ab ipsa infantia emit Nicareta, Charisii Elei liberta, Hippiae coqui eius uxor, gnara et perita perspiciendae venustae parvulorum naturae et eos sollerter educandi instituendique scia, ut quae artem eam exerceret, atque ex ea re victum collegisset, filiarum autem eas nomine compellavit, ut quam maximas ab iis, qui earum consuetudinem, tanquam ingenuarum appetebant, mercedes exigeret, posteaquam autem florem aetatis earum magno cum quaestu prostituit: uno, ut dicam, fasce, corpora etiam earum, cum septem essent, vendidit: Antiae, Stratolae, Aristoclae, Metanirae, Philae, Isthmiadis et Neaerae. Quam igitur unusquisque earum emerit, et ut ab iis qui eos a Nicareta emerant, libertate donatae sint. (That Neaera was a foreigner by birth, I will make it my first business to prove. Seven girls were bought in earliest childhood by Nicareta, freed-woman of Charisius of Elis, wife of his cook Nicias,—a knowing woman, astute at noting the promise of beauty in children and skilful in their clever upbringing and instruction, as might be expected of one who practised that art as a profession and had made her living thereby. Her daughters however she called them, that she might demand the greater fees from such as sought to enjoy their favours, as being free-born maidens. Then when they had reached the flower of their age, she prostituted them with great profit to herself, selling their persons, seven as they were, in one bundle, so to express it,—whose names were Antia, Stratole, Aristoclea, Metanira, Phile, Isthmias, and Neaera. Thus each of them found a purchaser, and on such conditions that they were presented with their freedom by the lovers who had bought them from Nicareta).