[162] Comp. Bernhardy, “Grundiss der Griechischen Literatur,” (First Sketch of Greek Literature), Pt. I. p. 40.
[163] Hetaerae were bound by law to wear gay, party-coloured clothes, Suidas, s. v. ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον. Νόμος Ἀθήνησι, τὰς ἑταίρας ἄνθινα φέρειν· (under the expression ἑταιρῶν ἄνθινον—flowered robe of hetaerae: it was a law at Athens that the hetaerae must wear flowered robes); at Locri Zaleucus prescribed the same costume, Suidas, s. v. Ζάλευκος (under the word Zaleucus); it was also law among the Syracusans, Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. ch. 4. Comp. Petit, “Legg. Attic.,” (Laws of Athens), p. 476. The same is stated of the Lacedaemonians by Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedog., bk. II. ch. 10. Comp. Wesseling, on Diodorus Sic., IV. 4.—Sidon. Apoll., Epist., XX. 3. Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagor., ch. 31.—A. Borremans. Var. Lect., ch. 10. p. 94.—Artemidorus, Oneirocrit., bk. II. ch. 3.
[164] Aulus Gellius, Noct. Attic., bk. I. ch. 6.
[165] Aulus Gellius, Noct. Attic., bk. X. ch. 23.
[166] Livy, Hist. I. 4., II. 18.
[167] Cicero, Orat. pro Coelio, ch. 20., Si quis est, qui etiam meretriciis amoribus interdictum iuventuti putet, est ille quidem valde severus, negare non possum: sed abhorret non modo ab huius seculi licentia, verum etiam a maiorum consuetudine atque concessis. Quando enim factum non est? quando reprehensum, quando non permissum? (If any is found to think that young men should be forbidden to indulge simple intrigues with harlots, I can only say he is an exceedingly stern moralist, I cannot deny he is right in the abstract. But his view is opposed not merely to the free habits of the present age, but also to the usage and permitted licence of our fathers? When, I ask, has this not been done? when rebuked, when not allowed?
Horace, Sat., bk. I. 2. vv. 31-35.,
Quidam notus homo, cum exiret fornice: Macte
Virtute esto, inquit sententia dia Catonis.
Nam simul ac venas inflavit tetra libido,