[200] Already in _Livy_, II. 18., we read the account: Eo anno Romae, cum per ludos ab Sabinorum iuventute per lasciviam scorta raperentur, etc. (That year at Rome, when during the games harlots were carried off in their wantonness by the youth of the Sabines, etc.) _Plautus_, Casin. Prolog., 82-86.; this passage is repeatedly cited in this connection, but really has only a remote bearing on the matter. But in confirmation _Isidore_, XVIII. 42., says: Idem vero theatrum idem et prostibulum, eo quod _post ludos exactos meretrices ibi prosternerentur_. (But theatre and brothel were identical, for _after the games were over, harlots used to prostitute themselves there_). Comp. _Buleng._ De Theatro I. 16. and 49. _Lipsius_, Elect., I. 11. Of course these statements may refer equally well to the Floralia or, as _Isidore_ lived so much later, to the lascivious representations of brothel-life of which _Tertullian_ tells us. The latter writes, De Spectaculis ch. 17., Ipsa etiam prostibula, publicae libidinis hostiae, in scena proferantur, plus miserae in praesentia feminarum, quibus solis latebant: perque omnis aetatis, omnis dignitatis ora transducuntur, locus, stipes, elogium, etiam quibus opus est, praedicatur. (Nay, the very harlots, victims of the public lust, are brought forward on the stage, more wretched still in the presence of women, who alone used to be ignorant of such things; and they are discussed by the lips of every age and every condition, and place, origin, merits, even what should never be mentioned, are freely spoken of). In 1791 in a public theatre in Paris just such things were represented as _Juvenal_ in his Sixth Satire speaks of as being acted at Rome. Gynaeology Pt. III. p. 423. That whores were to be found in the Theatre as well as in the Circus is shown by _Lampridius_, Vita Heliogab., ch. 32., fertur et una die ad omnes _circi_ et _theatri_ et _amphitheatri_ et omnium urbis locorum _meretrices_ ingressus. (And access is given on one day to all the _harlots of circus, theatre and amphitheatre_ and all the places of the city). Comp. ch. 26., and _Abram._ on Cicero’s Speech for Milo ch. 24. p. 177. Perhaps at all these spots “chambers” (cellae) were put up, to which the word _locorum_ (places) above may very well refer.