The place of their abode shows at once what class of men frequented “filles de joye” of the sort. It was foreign sailors[145] in particular who here indemnified themselves for their compulsory continence at sea. Of Greeks only the dregs of the people and debauchees who had lost all self-respect came here; and even these used by preference the taverns[146], where procuration was carried on as well[147],—for which reason they had fallen into general disrepute. For as late as Aristophanes’[148] time the lower class of citizens felt no hesitation about taking their pleasure along with their wives in inns. On the other hand persons of repute, prominent by office and dignities, were actually forbidden by law to visit such places. “Were an Areopagite to have been seen but once in an Inn,” says _Hyperides_[149], “his colleagues would no longer have tolerated him as a member of the Areopagus.” Later, matters changed, for the moralizing _Isocrates_[150] says, “Nay! no well-conducted slave dares even eat or drink anything in an Inn”; and _Theophrastus_, portraying the character of a madman quite devoid of shame gives this as a trait,—he would be quite capable of keeping an Inn! The hetaera (female-companion) must be distinguished from the πόρνη (harlot), though both were under similar conditions as to police surveillance. The hetaera was also strictly speaking a slave-woman, usually stolen as a child or otherwise obtained by procuresses, or bought by older hetaerae. They were educated[151] in all that was understood by the Ancients under the name “Music”, that over and above their charms of person, they might especially captivate their lovers by their intellectual cultivation, who bought them to give them their freedom,—and then more often than not were presently abandoned by them. The great nursery of hetaerae was above all places Corinth, from which centre they travelled through all parts of Greece, as e.g. did Neaera, and frequently acquired enormous riches. The better class of them were everywhere held in high esteem; and many a hetaera, grown weary of her condition, gave her hand to a husband, in order to close her life as an honest wife[152], or else retired so as at any rate to lead a blameless existence[153]. Frequently indeed they were also “Dames de Maison”, and often kept a considerable number of girls under the title of hand-maids. This was the case with Nicareta, just mentioned, at Corinth, as well as with the famous Aspasia at Athens, the latter of whom flooded all Hellas with her protegées[154]. Such as were held in less respect often put themselves under the protection of their more renowned sisters, or else carried on the calling on their own account, and this especially when they were not so well educated, not “musical” (πέζαι ἑταίραι—_prose lady-companions_)[155], at Athens going to settle at the Peiraeus to entice the merchants who arrived in the port, whilst the more choice merely showed themselves there[156]. They often