“If in two apertures you can work, Galla, and can do more than double work in both, why, Aeschylus, does she get tenfold pay? She fellates, but that is not a matter of such price surely. Nay! it is because she must be silent!”
It is not her infamy that Galla sells so dear; it is the inconvenience of having to be silent during the process, which, for a prattler, “is a very serious matter,” as Martial says, IV., 81. Book XII., Epigr. 35, quoted later on, also refers to this.
[83]. It is the same with the word stuprum. Festus: The ancients employed the word stuprum for turpitude, as appears in the Song of Neleus.
“Foede stupreque castigor cotidie.” (I am foully and disgracefully beaten every day.)
Naevius: “They would rather die than return to their co-citizens cum stupro.”
[84]. First the rogue lends her vulva, then her buttocks, and lastly her mouth. Some suppose the full-bosomed Spatalé of Martial, II., 52 was just as prodigal:
“Dasius was astute at counting the bathers; he asked full-bosomed Spatalé the fee of three women, and she paid.”
But I believe they wrong the good Spatalé. Dasius, the bathing man, wanted only that Spatalé, whose charms were ample and buxom, she taking up as much room as three other women, should pay for three.
The Phyllis of Martial, XII., 65, showed herself liberal in every way:
“The beautiful Phyllis, who throughout the whole night had proved herself right liberal in every way....”