Note 230 — Chapter XII
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It is also said that the nurse of the Latin twins was a strumpet, because lupæ or lupanæ fœminæ were names given to such women, whence also the name of lupanaria given to the houses to which they resorted: "Abscondunt spurcas hæc monumenta lupas." Olaus Magnus wrote, that wolves, attracted by smell, attack pregnant women, whence the custom that no pregnant woman should go out unless accompanied by an armed man. The ancients believed that the phallos of the wolf roasted and eaten weakened the Venus.