_Eusebius_, Life of Constantine, III. p. 58. _Socrates_, Eccles. Hist. I. 18. [24] _Heeren_, “Ideen über Politik und Handel,” (Ideas on Political Science and Trade), Pt. I. 2. p. 257. [25] So we think we ought to understand the _κατα_πορνεύει τὰ θήλεα τέκνα (prostitute _down_ their female children) in the text, for the expression is evidently formed on the same plan as the καθῆσθαι ἐπ’ οἰκήματος (to sit down at a house of ill-fame in _Plato_, Charmides, 163. c.; because the brothels lay near the harbour, and so in the more low-lying region, away from Athens itself. In the same way the Romans used the verb _descendere_ (to go down), e. g. _Horace_, Satires I. 2. 34., because the public houses of ill-fame at Rome were in the valley, in the Subura. [26] Hist. of Alexander the Great, Bk. V. ch. 1. Comp. Isaiah, XIV. 11., XLVII. 1. Jeremiah, LI. 39. Daniel, V. 1. [27] Bk. XI. p. 532. Ἀλλὰ καὶ θυγατέρας οἱ ἐπιφανέστατοι τοῦ ἔθνους ἀνιεροῦσι παρθένους, αἷς νόμος ἐστὶ, καταπορνευθείσαις πολὺν χρόνον παρὰ τῇ θεῷ μετὰ ταῦτα δίδοσθαι πρὸς γάμον. (Moreover the chief men of the nation consecrate their daughters when still virgins, and it is the custom for these, after acting as prostitutes for a long time in the service of the goddess, then to be given in marriage). Hence the Scholiast also to _Juvenal_, Satir. I. 104, “Mesopotameni homines effrenatae libidinis sunt in utroque sexu, ut Salustius meminit,” (The inhabitants of Mesopotamia are people of unbridled lustfulness in either sex, as Sallust records); and _Cedrenus_, Chaldaeorum et Babyloniorum leges plenae sunt impudicitiae atque turpitudinis, (the laws of the Chaldaeans and Babylonians are full of indecency and foulness). [28] Bk. I chs. 93, 94. The ἐνεργαζόμεναι παιδίσκαι (maids working at their handicraft) mentioned in this passage are maids who, to use Heine’s expression, practice their _horizontal_ craft. Herodotus’ story is also found mentioned in _Strabo_ Bk. XI. p. 533., _Aelian_, Var. Hist., bk, IV. ch. 1., and _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XII. p. 516. [29] Augustine, De Civit. Dei, bk. IV. ch. 10. Cui (Veneri) etiam Phoenices donum de prostitutione filiarum, ante quam iungerent eas viro, (To whom—Venus,—the Phoenicians also made a gift of the prostitution of their daughters, before they married them to a husband). _Athenagoras_, Adv. Graecos, p. 27. D., Γυναῖκες γοῦν ἐν εἰδωλείοις τῆς Φοινικίας πάλαι προκαθέζοντο ἀπαρχόμεναι τοῖς ἐκεῖ θεοῖς ἑαυτῶν τὴν τοῦ σώματος αυτῶν μισθαρνίαν, νομίζουσαι τῇ πορνείᾳ τὴν θεὸν ἑαυτῶν ἱλάσκεσθαι. (Thus women used of old to sit in the idolatrous temples of the Phoenicians, offering as first-fruits to the gods therein the hire of the prostitution of their own bodies, deeming that by fornication was their goddess propitiated). Comp. _Eusebius_, De Praeparat. Evangel. IV. 8.—_Athanasius_, Orat. contra Gentes.—_Theodoret_, Hist. Eccles. I. 8. [30] De Dea Syra, ch. 6.