Note 357 — BOOK IX[283]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Lais (d. circa 340 b.c.), a noted Corinthian courtezan, said to have been advised to adopt her profession by Apelles. Demosthenes was one of her many lovers; Diogenes another. She was assassinated in Thessaly by a number of women jealous of their husbands' affections.—T.