The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityRosenbaum, Julius
History
The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 (of 2): Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity
Rosenbaum, Julius
Sexually transmitted diseases -- History
[126] s. v. _Κεραμεικός_· τόπος Ἀθήνῃ ἐστιν, ἔνθα αἱ πόρναι
προεστήκεσαν· εἰσὶ δὲ δύο Κεραμεικοὶ, ὁ μὲν ἔξω τείχους, ὁ δὲ ἐντός.
(Under the word “Ceramicus”: this is a place at Athens, where the
Prostitutes plied their trade. There are two Ceramici, the Ceramicus
without, and the Ceramicus within, the walls). Comp. _Meursius_,
Graecia feriata (Holiday Greece), p. 186.
[127] _Pollux_, Onomast. bk. IV. ch. 5. 48., Καὶ ταῦτα δὲ, εἰ καὶ
αἰσχίω, μέρη _πόλεως_, ἀσωτεῖα, πεττεῖα, κυβεῖα, κυβευτήρια, σκιραφεῖα,
_ματρυλεῖα_, _ἀγωγεῖα_, προαγωγεῖα. (And these also are parts of the
city, though somewhat disreputable ones, the profligates’ quarter, the
gamesters’ quarter, the dicers’ quarter, the quarter of dicing-houses,
of gaming-houses, of bawdy houses and of pimps’ establishments).
[128] _Philostratus_, Epist., 23., πάντα με αἵρει τὰ σὰ, τὸ καπηλεῖον
ὡς Ἀφροδίσιον. (Everything about you draws me, like the tavern, home of
love).
[129] In the better times of Athens this never occurred. The women
were kept far too closely shut up; and their moral behaviour was
subject to the supervision of the γυναικονόμοι (Commissioners for the
oversight of Women). _Meursius_, Lect. Attic. II. 5.—_Reiske_, Index
Graec. in Demosthen. p. 66. A regulation which existed even among the
self-indulgent Sybarites. _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XII. p. 521. Later
it was poverty especially that drove free Greek women to take up the
calling of prostitute. _Demosthenes_, In Neaeram p. 533., παντελῶς
ἤδη ἡ μὲν τῶν πορνῶν ἐργασία ἥξει εἰς τὰς τῶν πολιτίδων θυγατέρας δι’
ἀπορίαν, ὅσαι ἂν μὴ δύνωνται ἐκδοθῆναι. (Completely after a while will
the trade of prostitutes come to be the occupation of the daughters of
our fellow-citizenesses through poverty, that will force all to it who
cannot get a dower).
[130] _Lysias_, Orat. I. in Theomnestum.
[131] _Suidas_, _διάγραμμα_· τὸ μίσθωμα· διέγραφον δὲ οἱ ἀγορανόμοι,
ὅσον ἔδει λαμβάνειν τὴν ἑταίραν ἑκάστην—_μίσθωμα_· ὁ μισθὸς ὁ
ἑταιρικὸς. (“Scale”: the fee; for the Market-Commissioners fixed the
scale, how much each hetaera was to receive.—“fee”: the pay of a
hetaera).
[132] _Hesychius_, s. v. τριαντοπόρνη· λαμβάνουσα τριᾶντα, ὅ ἐστι λεπτὰ
ἓν εἴκοσι. (under the word τριαντοπόρνη: girl who receives a trias,
which is twenty one lepta).
[133] _Suidas_, s. v. χαλκιδῖτις. παρὰ Ἰωσήπῳ ἡ πόρνη, ἀπὸ τῆς
εὐτελείας τοῦ διδομένου νομίσματος. (under the word χαλκιδῖτις:
in Josephus = prostitute, from the smallness of the coin
given.—_Eustathius_, on Homer, II. bk. XXIII., p. 1329., Od. bk. X., p.
777.
[134] _Aristophanes_, Thesmoph. 1207., δώσεις οὖν δραχμήν. (you will
give a drachma then).
[135] _Pollux_, Onomast. IX. 59., οὔ φησιν εἶναι τῶν ἑταιρῶν τὰς μέσας
_Στατηριαίας_. (he denies that of the hetaerae the middling ones were
_the Stater-girls_).
[136] _Athenaeus_, XII. p. 547., states it of the Peripatetic
philosopher _Lycon_: καὶ πόσον ἑκάστη τῶν ἑταιρουσῶν ἐπράττετο μίσθωμα,
(and how much pay each of the hetaerae-girls charged).
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