Note 212 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Plautus, Cist., I. 1. 39.,
Eunt depressum, quia nos sumus libertinae, Et ego et mater tua, ambae meretrices sumus.
(They go about to depreciate us, because we are freed-women, both I and your mother, we are both courtesans).—Livy, XXXIX. 9.