Note 213 — FIRST SECTION.
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They were called for this reason vestita scorta (dressed out whores). Juvenal, Satir. III. 135.—Horace, Sat. I. 2. 28.,
Sunt qui nolint tetigisse, nisi illas Quarum subsuta talos tegat instita veste.
(There are men who will refuse to touch any woman but those whose frilled tunic has a flounce touching their heels).—Comp. Burmann on Petronius, pp. 64 and 95.—Ferrarius, De re vestiar. (On costume), bk. III. ch. 23.