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On the morrow the palace of the Caesars was turned into a lupanar, a little larger, a little handsomer than the others, but still a brothel, one of which the inmates were matrons of Rome and the keeper Jupiter Latialis After that, seemingly, there was nothing save apotheosis.

—Imperial Purple

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In Roman antiquity, a brothel.

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By judicial precedent at Rome it was made a crime to beat a slave, or to undress near a statue of the emperor, or to carry a coin bearing his image into a latrine or a lupanar. — Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Queen Joanna of Naples made ordinances for a lupanar at Avignon, in 1347, when it was the papal residence. — Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
On the morrow the palace of the Caesars was turned into a lupanar, a little larger, a little handsomer than the others, but still a brothel, one of which the inmates were matrons of Rome and the keeper Jupiter Latialis After that, seemingly, there was nothing save apotheosis. — Imperial Purple
In that lupanar of the dead. — Perpetual Light : a memorial
And slink into the vault and make the Pyramid your lupanar — Ballad of Reading Gaol