[153] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 577. μεταβάλλουσαι γὰρ τοιαῦται εἰς τὸ σῶφρον, τῶν ἐπὶ τούτῳ σεμνυνομένων εἰσὶ βελτίους. (For women of this class when they change and adopt an honest life, are of better character than those who pride themselves on this account). [154] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 569., Καὶ Ἀσπασία δὲ ἡ Σωκρατικὴ ἐνεπορεύετο πλήθη καλῶν γυναικῶν καὶ ἐπλήθυνεν ἀπὸ τῶν ταύτης ἑταιρίδων ἡ Ἑλλὰς. (And Aspasia too, the preceptress of Socrates, used to import multitudes of handsome women, and Greece was filled with her hetaerae). Even the King of the Sidonians, _Strato_, had his wants supplied from there. _Athenaeus_, bk. XII. P. 531. [155] _Hesychius_, s. v. _πέζας μοίχους_· οὕτως ἐκάλουν τὰς μισθαρνούσας ἑταίρας χωρὶς ὀργάνου. (under the expression πέζας μοίχους,—common, prose fornicators: this was the name given to hetaerae who were prostitutes without playing any instrument). Comp. _Photius_, Lexicon, under same word.—_Procopius_ Anecdot. p. 41.—_Cuperi_ Observat. I. 16. p. 116.—_Casaubon_, on Sueton. Nero. ch. 27. [156] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 582. [157] Chares took flute-players, singing-girls and πέζαι ἑταίραι with him, according to _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 532. [158] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 573. When Darius was marching to take the field against Alexander, he had 350 παλλακὰς (concubines) in his train (_Athenaeus_, XIII. p. 557.), of whom 329 understood music. (ibid. p. 608). [159] “Vermischte Schriften,” (Miscellaneous Writings), Vol. IV. pp. 311 sqq. [160] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 533. Θεμιστοκλῆς δ’, οὔπω Ἀθηναίων μεθυσκομένων, _οὐδ’ ἑταίραις χρωμένων_, ἐκφανῶς τέθριππον ζεύξας ἑταιρίδων κ. τ. λ. (But Themistocles, at a period when Athenians were not yet in the habit of getting drunk, _nor frequenting harlots_, openly put in harness a four-horse team of hetaerae, etc.). [161] _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 532. [162] Comp. Bernhardy, “Grundiss der Griechischen Literatur,” (First Sketch of Greek Literature), Pt. I. p. 40. [163] Hetaerae were bound by law to wear gay, party-coloured clothes, _Suidas_, s. v. ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον. Νόμος Ἀθήνησι, τὰς ἑταίρας ἄνθινα φέρειν· (under the expression ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον—flowered robe of hetaerae: it was a law at Athens that the hetaerae must wear flowered robes); at Locri Zaleucus prescribed the same costume, _Suidas_, s. v. Ζάλευκος (under the word Zaleucus); it was also law among the Syracusans, _Athenaeus_, Deipnos., bk. XII. ch. 4. Comp. _Petit_, “Legg. Attic.,” (Laws of Athens), p. 476. The same is stated of the Lacedaemonians by _Clemens Alexandrinus_, Paedog., bk. II. ch. 10. Comp. _Wesseling_, on Diodorus Sic., IV. 4.—_Sidon. Apoll._, Epist., XX. 3. _Iamblichus_, De Vita Pythagor., ch. 31.—_A. Borremans_. Var. Lect., ch. 10. p. 94.—_Artemidorus_, Oneirocrit., bk. II. ch. 3. [164] _Aulus Gellius_, Noct. Attic., bk. I. ch. 6. [165] _Aulus Gellius_, Noct. Attic., bk. X. ch. 23. [166] _Livy_, Hist. I. 4., II. 18.