Note 125 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Onomast., bk. IX. ch. 5. 34., Τὰ δὲ περὶ τοὺς λιμένας μέρη, δεῖγμα, χῶμα, ἐμπόριον· — τοῦ δ’ ἐμπορίου μέρη, καπηλεῖα, καὶ πορνεῖα, ἃ καὶ οἰκήματα ἄν τις εἴποι. (And the parts of the city near the harbour, market, mole, exchange;—and parts of the exchange, inns and brothels or “houses” as one might say). Meursius, Peiraeeus, last chapter—From this low-lying situation of the brothels comes the expression ἐπ’ οἰκήματος καθῆσθαι (to live down in a “house”, e. g. in Plato, Charmides 163 c.—C. Ernesti on Xenophon, Memorab. Socrat., II. 2. 4.