Note 192 — FIRST SECTION.

Nonius Marcellus, V. § 8., Inter meretricem et prostibulum hoc interest: quod meretrix honestioris loci est et quaestus: nam meretrices a merendo dictae sunt, quod copiam sui tantummodo noctu facerent: prostibula, quod ante stabulum stent quaestus diurni et nocturni causa. (This is the difference between a meretrix (harlot) and a prostibulum (common strumpet): a meretrix is of a more honorable station and calling; for meretrices were so named a merendo (from earning wages), because they plied their calling only by night; prostibula, because they stand before the stabulum (stall, “chamber”) for gain both by day and night).—Plautus, Cistell. fragm., Adstat ea in via sola: prostibula sane est. (She stands there in the way alone: surely she is a prostibula—common whore).