[152] Comp. the list, compiled chiefly from Athenaeus, of the most renowned hetaerae in Musonius Philosophus, “De luxu Graecorum” ch. XII. in Gronovius’ Thesaurus Antiq. Graecor. vol. VIII. pp. 2516 sqq.
[153] Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 577. μεταβάλλουσαι γὰρ τοιαῦται εἰς τὸ σῶφρον, τῶν ἐπὶ τούτῳ σεμνυνομένων εἰσὶ βελτίους. (For women of this class when they change and adopt an honest life, are of better character than those who pride themselves on this account).
[154] Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XIII. p. 569., Καὶ Ἀσπασία δὲ ἡ Σωκρατικὴ ἐνεπορεύετο πλήθη καλῶν γυναικῶν καὶ ἐπλήθυνεν ἀπὸ τῶν ταύτης ἑταιρίδων ἡ Ἑλλὰς. (And Aspasia too, the preceptress of Socrates, used to import multitudes of handsome women, and Greece was filled with her hetaerae). Even the King of the Sidonians, Strato, had his wants supplied from there. Athenaeus, bk. XII. P. 531.
[155] Hesychius, s. v. πέζας μοίχους· οὕτως ἐκάλουν τὰς μισθαρνούσας ἑταίρας χωρὶς ὀργάνου. (under the expression πέζας μοίχους,—common, prose fornicators: this was the name given to hetaerae who were prostitutes without playing any instrument). Comp. Photius, Lexicon, under same word.—Procopius Anecdot. p. 41.—Cuperi Observat I. 16. p. 116.—Casaubon, on Sueton. Nero. ch. 27.
[156] Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 582.
[157] Chares took flute-players, singing-girls and πέζαι ἑταίραι with him, according to Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 532.
[158] Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XIII. p. 573. When Darius was marching to take the field against Alexander, he had 350 παλλακὰς (concubines) in his train (Athenaeus, XIII. p. 557.), of whom 329 understood music. (ibid. p. 608).
[159] “Vermischte Schriften,” (Miscellaneous Writings), Vol. IV. pp. 311 sqq.
[160] Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 533. Θεμιστοκλῆς δ’, οὔπω Ἀθηναίων μεθυσκομένων, οὐδ’ ἑταίραις χρωμένων, ἐκφανῶς τέθριππον ζεύξας ἑταιρίδων κ. τ. λ. (But Themistocles, at a period when Athenians were not yet in the habit of getting drunk, nor frequenting harlots, openly put in harness a four-horse team of hetaerae, etc.).
[161] Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 532.