(All that please, none will say nay, may enter here, smeared with the black spot of the brothel).—_Prudentius_, Contra Symmachum, bk. II., spurcam redolente fornice cellam, (a filthy chamber in the stinking brothel).—_Seneca_, Controv., I. 2., Redoles adhuc fuliginem fornicis. (You reek still of the soot of the brothel).—_Juvenal_, Sat VI. 130., says of the Empress Messalina: Obscurisque genis turpis, fumoque lucernae Foeda lupanaris tulit ad pulvinar odorem. (And disfigured and dim-eyed, fouled with the smoke of the lamp, she bore back the stink of the brothel to the imperial couch). [180] _Juvenal_, Sat. VI. 122., 127.—_Petronius_, Sat. 8.—_Lipsius_, Saturn. I. 14. Hence Cella and Cellae (chambers) are constantly used in the sense of lupanar (brothel). [181] _Martial_, bk. XI. 46., Intrasti quoties inscripta limina cellae, (As oft as you have crossed the thresholds of a “chamber” with inscription over). _Seneca_, Controv., bk. I. 2., Deducta es in lupanar, accepisti locum, pretium constitutum est, _titulus_ inscriptus est, (You were taken away to a brothel, you received your stand, your price was fixed, _your name written up_).—Meretrix vocata es, in communi loco stetisti, _superpositus est cellae tuae titulus_, venientes recepisti, (You were called a harlot, you took your stand in a public brothel, _your name-ticket was put up above your chamber_, you received such as came).—Nomen tuum pedendit in fronte, pretia stupri accepisti, et manus, quae diis datura erat sacra, capturas tulit, (Your name hung on your door, you took the price of fornication, and your hand, that was meant to offer sacred gifts to the gods, held the fees). This last passage interpreters have wished to understand as if the name-ticket were fastened on the woman’s forehead; but, not to mention that in this case _tibi_ would have to be read for _tuum_, it is a perfectly well known fact that _frons_ (front, forehead) was used in Latin for the face of a door (_Ovid_, Fasti, I. 135., Omnis habet geminas, hinc atque hinc, ianua frontes, (Every door has two faces, inside and out). _Seneca_ says _pependit_ (it hung there), and afterwards is promoted onto the list of the Leno (Brothel-keeper)!