-
prostitutes in
Roman comedies. In most
modern scholarship,
meretrix (plural:
meretrices) is
taken to be the
standard term for a
registered female prostitute,...
- duce
Valentinense in
camera sua, in
palatio apostolico,
quinquaginta meretrices honeste cortegiane nuncupate, que post
cenam coreaverunt **** servitoribus...
- only
Roman women who wore a toga were
unfree prostitutes (referred to as
meretrices or ancillae) who
worked in the
streets and in brothels. A
Roman matron...
- was
known as "Jack the Strangler", "The
Women Strangler" and "The Mata-
Meretrices". He
intercepted his
victims in the
streets (all
women between 20 and...
-
including the
prevention of
foreign superstitions and the
registration of
meretrices. They also
punished those who had too
large a
share of the ager publicus...
- The Asociación de
Mujeres Meretrices de
Argentina (AMMAR) is the
union of ****
workers in Argentina. It is
responsible for
defending their rights and ensuring...
- High-caste
women convicted of adultery, and high-class
female prostitutes (
meretrices), were not only
forbidden public use of the stola, but
might have been...
- needed] Higher-class
female prostitutes (
meretrices) and
women divorced for
adultery were
denied the stola.
Meretrices might have been
expected or perhaps...
- workers: "pimped-out boys,"
following the
previous day's
recognition of
meretrices,
female prostitutes regarded as
professionals of some standing. Other...
- Rome's
higher echelons.
Common girls (vulgares puellae) and
prostitutes (
meretrices)
gathered at
Venus Erycina's
Colline temple –
probably on
separate occasions...
