The conclusion then is indisputable that only subsequently to the Wars in Asia was Roman morality undermined[172]. At the same time it is impossible from the information given above to assign any definite point of time at which brothels and public women came into vogue at Rome, or at any rate when their existence as such was officially recognized by those in charge of the police supervision of the city. With the regulations and arrangements however we are more precisely acquainted. The brothels, _lupanaria_[173], _fornicas_[174], were situated chiefly in the Second District (Secunda Regio) of the city[175], the _Coelimontana_, particularly in the Subura (Suburbana) that bordered the town-walls, lying in the Carinae,—the valley between the Coelian and Esquiline Hills. In the same district was the _Macellum magnum_, or Great Market, for all sorts of provisions[176] along the banks of the Tiber, as well as the Cookshops, Stalls or Shops (Tabernae)—of the Barbers, even of the Public Executioner[177], and the Castra peregrina, (Foreign Camp), barracks for foreign troops quartered in Rome under the Emperors as a garrison,—all circumstances that occasioned a great concourse of men[178]. To the North the Subura marched with the “Isis and Serapis”,—the Third District (Tertia Regio), where was situated the temple of Isis with its gardens and groves. The regular brothels are pictured to us as being in the highest degree uncleanly and dirty[179], so that their frequenters carried away the smell with them. They possessed a definite number of “chambers”, _Cellae_[180], and above the door of each of these was inscribed the name of the girl, that which she had adopted on her first admission[181], and the price of her embraces[182]. In each “chamber” was to be found a bed (_pavimentum_, cubiculum, pulvinar,—pavement, sleeping-place, couch), which was spread with a particular kind of coverlet, _lodix_, _lodicula_, (blanket, little blanket)[183], and a lamp, _lucerna_[184].