[31] Valerius Maximus, bk. II. ch. 6. 15., Sicae enim fanum est Veneris, in quod matronae (Poenicarum) conferebant; atque inde prosedentes ad quaestum, dotes corporis iniuria contrahebant, (for at Sica is a shrine of Venus, to which the matrons—amongst the Phoenicians—used to repair; and there sitting for hire, earned their dowers by the prostitution of their persons).
[32] Justinus, Histor. Philipp., bk. XVIII, ch. 5., Mos erat Cypriis, virgines ante nuptias statutis diebus, dotalem pecuniam quaesituras, in quaestum ad litus maris mittere, pro reliqua pudicitia libamenta Veneri soluturas. (It was a custom among the Cyprians to send the virgins before their marriage on fixed days to the sea-shore, there to sit for hire and so earn money for their dowry, to thus render to Venus the first-fruits of their maidenhood). Comp. Athenaeus, Deipnos. bk. XII, p. 516.
[33] Justinus, Histor. Philipp., bk. XXI. ch. 3., Cum Rheginorum tyranni Leophronis bello Locrenses premerentur, voverant, si victores forent, ut die festo Veneris virgines suas prostituerent. Quo voto intermisso cum adversa bella cum Lucanis gererent, in concionem eos Dionysius vocat: hortatur ut uxores filiasque suas in templum Veneris quam possint ornatissimas mittant, ex quibus sorte ductae centum voto publico fungantur, religionisque gratia uno stent in lupanari mense omnibus ante iuratis viris, ne quis ullam attaminet. Quae res ne virginibus voto civitatem solventibus fraudi esset, decretum facerent: ne qua virgo nuberet, priusquam illae maritis traderentur. etc. (The people of Locri, when they were hard pressed in the war with Leophron tyrant of the Rhegians, had made a vow, that should they be victorious, they would abandon their virgins to prostitution on the feast-day of Venus. But this vow was broken, and when they were waging a disastrous war with the Lucanians, Dionysius calls them to an assembly, wherein he urges them to send their wives and daughters to the Temple of Venus in the gayest array they could, and that of these a hundred should be chosen by lot to carry out the public vow; that to fulfil the obligation to the goddess they should stand publicly in a brothel one month, all men having previously bound themselves by oath that none should deflower any one of them. Further that this thing should be no detriment to the maidens who so freed the city of its vow, a decree should be passed to the effect that no maiden might marry, until these were given to husbands; etc.). Comp. Athenaeus, Deipnos., bk. XII. p. 516. Strabo, bk. VI. p. 259, says: προεγάμει τὰς νυμφοστοληθείσας, (he used to lie first with maidens that had been made brides).
[34] “De Babyloniorum instituto, ut mulieres ad Veneris templum prostarent,” (On the Babylonian custom of Women prostituting themselves at the Temple of Venus), note on Herodotus, I. p. 199 in Commentat. Soc. Reg. Götting., Vol. XVI. pp. 30-42.
[35] Vermischte Schriften, vol. VI. pp. 23-50, “Ueber eine Stelle bei Herodot.” (On a passage in Herodotus).
[36] According to Tacitus, Histor. II. 2., Under no circumstances must blood flow on the altars of the Paphian goddess.
[37] “Ideen über Politik und Handel,” (Ideas on Political Science and Trade), I. 2. p. 180. note 2.
[38] The King of Calicut at the southern extremity of Malabar gives his principal Priest a honorarium of 500 dollars, that he may loose his wives’ virgin-zone for him in the name of the Deity. Sonnerat, “Voyage aux Indes orientales” (Travels to the East Indies), Vol. I. p. 69. Hamilton, “New Account of the East Indies,” Vol. I. p. 308.
[39] Herodotus, bk. IV. ch. 172.—Pomponius Mela, bk. I. ch. 8. § 35.
[40] Diodorus Siculus, bk. V. ch. 18.