Besides the brothels, we find, particularly in the Taverns (cauponae, tabernae—inns, taverns) and Cookshops (popinae, ganea—cookshops, eating-houses)[201], women kept by the hosts for the gratification of their patrons. As a rule these also were bought slave-women, who served the guests, entertained them with dance and music, and surrendered their persons on desire. The hostesses themselves devoted their attention to both trades, as e.g. is shown by the “Copa” (Mine Hostess) ascribed to _Virgil_; and hence they, and their husbands with them, stood in the eye of the Magistrate on the same footing with Lenones and Meretrices (Brothel-keepers and Prostitutes)[202]. Now who frequented these places? Down to the time of the Empire only the lowest class of the people, particularly Sailors[203], Freedmen and Slaves[204], though indeed later, when _Claudius_ and _Nero_[205] set so eminent an example, high and low equally might be found both in brothels and in Taverns and Cookshops. The bakers, envious of the profits made by the inn-keepers, organized their tabernae (bread-stalls or shops) in the mills in such a way that they too could provide their customers with what they wanted[206]. This appears to have been done first in Campania[207]. But not solely in regular Houses and “Chambers” were “filles de joie” to be met with. They carried on their trade also as _Scorta erratica_ (wandering whores, street-walkers) the commonest sort, in all public places, at the corners of streets[208], round the tombs and monuments[209], in out-of-the-way nooks of the town and the surrounding plantations in its neighbourhood[210]. In these places they carried on their trade, some no doubt on their own account, other perhaps as slaves working for their masters and mistresses and bound to deliver in a fixed sum daily.