[51] Augustine, De Civit. Dei, bk. IV. ch. 10. “An Veneres duae sunt, una virgo, una mulier? An potius tres, una virginum, quae etiam Vesta est, alia conjugatarum, alia meretricum? (Are there two Venuses, one a virgin, the second a matron? Or rather are there three, one of virgins, who is also Vesta, another of wives, another of harlots?)
[52] “Quae Cnidon fulgentesque tenet Cycladas et Paphon,” (The goddess who haunts Cnidos and the gleaming Cyclades and Paphos), Horace, Odes III. 28. 13. Ἐνοικέτις τῶν νήσων (Inhabitress of the isles), Suidas.
[53] Remarkably enough some would derive the name Bordeaux (Bordel) from the French bord and eau, because the houses of ill-fame were almost always to be found on the bank of the river or in bagnios! Parent-Duchatelet, “Die Sittenverderbniss in der Stadt Paris,” (The Corruption of Morals in the City of Paris), Vol. I. p. 125.
[54] Strabo, XIV. 683.
[55] Suidas, under expression κυλλοῦ πήραν (cripple’s wallet) quotes that here—at Pera,—was a Fountain which made fruitful and facilitated delivery.
[56] According to Athenaeus, Deipnosoph., XII. p. 647., at the Feast of the Thesmophoria at Syracuse μυλλοί, representations of the female genital organs, moulded of sesame and honey, were carried about. This calls to remembrance the Juni of the Indians and the Phallus images.
[57] Bk. XIV. p. 657.
[58] Bk. II. ch. 27.
[59] “Ideen zur Kunst-Mythologie,” (Ideas towards a Study of the Mythology of Art). Dresden 1826. large 8vo. p. 207.
[60] Coveel, “De Sacerdotio Veterum Virginum.” (On the office of Priestess as filled by Virgins in Antiquity). Abo 1704. 8vo.—Hirt, A., “Die Hierodulen, mit Beilagen von Böckh und Buttmann,” (The Hieroduli, with Supplements by Böckh and Buttmann). I Pt. Berlin 1818. large 8vo.—Kreuser, J., “Der Hellenen Priesterstaat, mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die Hierodulen,” (Priestly Institutions of the Hellenes, with particular reference to the Hieroduli). Mayence 1822. 8vo.—Adrian, “Die Priesterinnen der Griechen,” (The Priestesses of the Greeks). Frankfort-on-the-Main 1822. 8vo.—Schinke, in Ersch and Gruber’s Allgem. Encyclopaedie, II. Sect. 8 Pt. p. 50.