Note 196 — FIRST SECTION.
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Martial, XI. 62.,
Quem cum fenestra vidit a Suburana Obscoena nudum lena fornicem clausit.
(When she saw him from a window in the Subura, the foul brothel-mistress shut the unoccupied “chamber”).
Juvenal, VI. 121.,
Intravit calidum veteri centone lupanar, Et cellam vacuam atque suam.
(She entered the brothel cosy with its old patch-work quilt, and the chamber that was vacant and her own.). Messalina had hired, we see, a special “chamber” of her own, where she acted as a prostitute under the name of Lycisca.