meretrix

• Revertar Quum leno, meretrix, scurra, cinaedus ero When Leo's short-lived successor, the gloomy Fleming, Adrian VI., who was the author of the proposal to destroy Pasquin, despatched his nuncio to the diet of Nuremberg to oppose the progress of Luther, he told him in his instructions to "avow frankly that God has permitted this schism and this persecution on account of the sins of men, and, above all, of those of the priests and the prelates of the Church." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860
• "This is the difference between a meretrix (harlot) and a prostibula (common strumpet): a meretrix is of a more honorable station and calling; for meretrices are so named a merendo (from earning wages) because they plied their calling only by night; prostibulu because they stand before the stabulum (stall) for gain both by day and night Prostibula--She who stands in front of her cell or stall Proseda--She who sits in front of her cell or stall. —  The Satyricon — Complete
• I eagerly await the revival of the word 'meretrix'. —  Sadly, No!
• Philocrates in _Cap. _, the entrapping of Demaenetus with the _meretrix_ at the dA (C) nouement of _As. _, etc., etc. —  The Dramatic Values in Plautus
• Nec casta, nec meretrix, —  Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

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