[137] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. chs. 44, 45. [138] _Horace_, Epist. I. 17. 36.—_Aulus Gellius_, Noct. Attic. bk. I. ch. 8. Comp. above p. 63. note 1. [139] _Aeschines_, Orat. in Timarch. p. 134. ed. Reisk., Ἀποθαυμάζει γὰρ, εἰ μὴ πάντες μέμνησθ’, _ὅτι καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἡ βουλὴ πωλεῖ τὸ πορνικὸν τέλος_· καὶ τοὺς πριαμένους τὸ τέλος τοῦτο οὐκ εἰκάζειν, ἀλλ’ ἀκριβῶς εἰδέναι τοὺς ταύτῃ χρωμένους τῇ ἐργασίᾳ· ὁπότε οὖν δὴ τετόλμηκα ἀντιγράψασθαι, πεπορνευμένῳ Τιμάρχῳ μὴ ἐξεῖναι δημηγορεῖν, ἀπαιτεῖν φησὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν αὐτὴν οὐκ αἰτίαν κατηγόρου, ἀλλὰ μαρτυρίαν _τελώνου_ τοῦ παρὰ Τιμάρχου _τοῦτο ἐκλέξαντος τὸ τέλος_· ἀλλὰ τοὺς τόπους ἐπερωτήσει ὅπου ἐκαθέζετο, καὶ τοὺς τελώνας, εἰ πώποτε παρ’ αὐτοῦ _πορνικὸν τέλος_ εἰλήφασιν. (He expresses extreme surprise, though possibly you don’t all remember, at the fact that _every year the senate sells the lease of the prostitution-tax_; and that the purchasers do not conjecture, but know precisely, those who practise this calling. So when I have the audacity to counter-plead, that Timarchus as having exercised the trade of prostitution is not competent to address the people, he does not deny the fact charged against his client by the accuser, but says, ‘I demand the evidence of any _tax-collector who collected this tax_ from Timarchus.’ ... but he will cross-examine as to the localities where he was established in the business, and will question the collectors as to whether they have ever levied prostitution-tax upon him). This passage shows at the same time in the clearest way that _Schneider_ is wrong, when in his Lexicon he explains πορνοτελώνης, occurring in _Pollux_. Onomast. VII. 202., IX. 29., as meaning a privileged or licenced whore-master, paying a duty to the magistrates on his trade. Besides, anything like a sanitary police supervision on the part of the Agoranomi at this period is of course out of the question. For the word ἀσφαλῶς (safely) in the fragment of _Eubulus_, (Athenaeus bk. XIII. p. 568), where it is said of the brothel-girls: παρ’ ὧν βεβαίως _ἀσφαλῶς_ τ’ ἔξεστί σοι μικροῦ πριάσθαι κέρματος τὴν ἡδονήν