Note 129 — FIRST SECTION.

In the better times of Athens this never occurred. The women were kept far too closely shut up; and their moral behaviour was subject to the supervision of the γυναικονόμοι (Commissioners for the oversight of Women). Meursius, Lect. Attic. II. 5.—Reiske, Index Graec. in Demosthen. p. 66. A regulation which existed even among the self-indulgent Sybarites. Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XII. p. 521. Later it was poverty especially that drove free Greek women to take up the calling of prostitute. Demosthenes, In Neaeram p. 533., παντελῶς ἤδη ἡ μὲν τῶν πορνῶν ἐργασία ἥξει εἰς τὰς τῶν πολιτίδων θυγατέρας δι’ ἀπορίαν, ὅσαι ἂν μὴ δύνωνται ἐκδοθῆναι. (Completely after a while will the trade of prostitutes come to be the occupation of the daughters of our fellow-citizenesses through poverty, that will force all to it who cannot get a dower).