Note 179 — FIRST SECTION.
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Horace, Satir. I. 2. 30., Contra alius nullam nisi olenti in fornice stantem. (On the other hand another man cares for no woman but such as stand in the foul-smelling brothel).—Priapeia,
Quilibet huc, licebit, intret Nigra fornicis oblitus favilla.
(All that please, none will say nay, may enter here, smeared with the black spot of the brothel).—Prudentius, Contra Symmachum, bk. II., spurcam redolente fornice cellam, (a filthy chamber in the stinking brothel).—Seneca, Controv., I. 2., Redoles adhuc fuliginem fornicis. (You reek still of the soot of the brothel).—Juvenal, Sat VI. 130., says of the Empress Messalina:
Obscurisque genis turpis, fumoque lucernae Foeda lupanaris tulit ad pulvinar odorem.
(And disfigured and dim-eyed, fouled with the smoke of the lamp, she bore back the stink of the brothel to the imperial couch).