Note 224 — FIRST SECTION.

Tacitus, Annal., II. 85., Nam Vistilia, praetoria familia genita, licentiam stupri apud aediles vulgaverat, more inter veteres recepto, qui satis poenarum adversum impudicas in ipsa professione flagitii, credebant. (For Vistilia, born of a family of Praetorian rank, had publicly notified before the aediles a permit for fornication, according to the usage that prevailed among our fathers, who supposed that sufficient punishment for unchaste women resided in the very nature of the calling.) Comp. Lipsius, Excurs. O. p. 509.—Schubert, De Romanorum aedilibus (On the Roman Aediles), bk. IV. Königsberg 1828., p. 512.