Vos quoque abesse procul jubeo discedite ab aris, Queis tulit hesterna gaudia nocte, Venus. (You too I bid stand afar off, depart ye from the altars, to whom yesternight Venus brought her joys). Comp. _Ovid_, Amor., bk. III. eleg. 6. [251] _Ovid_, Amor., bk. III. eleg. 7. 84. Neve suae possent intactam scire ministrae, Dedecus hoc _sumta_ dissimulavit _aqua_. (And that her handmaids might not know her untouched, she dissembled this disgrace by _taking water_). _Ovid_, Ars Amandi, bk. III. 619., Scilicet obstabit custos ne scribere possis, _Sumendae_ detur cum tibi tempus _aquae_. (Of course your guard will put obstacles in the way to hinder your writing, though time be given you for _taking water_). _Martial_, bk. VII. Epigr. 34., Ecquid femineos sequeris matrona recessus? Secretusque tua, cunne, lavaris aqua? (What! do you a matron penetrate into women’s secret haunts? and by stealth are you washed, O female organ, in the water that appertains to you?) _Petronius_, Sat. 94., Itaque extra cellam processit, tanquam _aquam peteret_. (And so she came forward outside her chamber, and if she _were going for water_).—_Cicero_, Orat. pro Caelio, ch. 14. represents his grandfather Appius Claudius Caecus, who (442 A. U. C.) had constructed the Appian Way, say to his depraved granddaughter: Ideo aquam adduxi ut ea tu inceste uterere? (Was it for this I brought the water to Rome, that you might use it for abominable purposes?) Comp. Casaubon on Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. I. Letter 16. For the same reason women and girls who only rarely participated in sexual intercourse were called _siccae_ (dry) (_Plautus_, Miles Glor. III. 1. 192. _Martial_, XI. Epigr. 82. _Petronius_, Sat. 37.), in contrast to the _uda puella_ (wet girl) _Juvenal_, Sat. X. 321. _Martial_, XI. 17., who was obliged to wash herself frequently. So too _illota_ or _illauta_ virgo (unwashed maid) stands for _intacta_ virgo (untouched maid), as in _Plautus_, Poenul. I. sc. 2. 22. Nam quae lavata est, nisi perculta est, meo quidem animo, quasi _illauta_ est. (For she who is washed, unless she is bedecked as well, in my opinion, is as good as _unwashed_). In fact the whole of this scene is important for our subject.