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If any woman, not being married, has
opened her house to the passions of everybody, and has openly established
herself in the way of life of a harlot, and has been accustomed to frequent
the banquets of men with whom she has no relationship; if she does so in the
city in country houses and in that most frequented place, Baiae, if in short she behaves in such a
manner, not only by her gait, but by her style of dress, and by the people
who are seen attending her, and not only by the eager glances of her eyes
and the freedom of her conversation, but also by embracing men, by kissing
them at water parties and sailing parties and banquets so as not only to
seem a harlot, but a very wanton and lascivious harlot, I ask you, O Lucius
Herennius, if a young man should happen to have been with her, is he to be
called an adulterer or a lover? does he seem to have been attacking chastity
or merely to have aimed at satisfying his desires?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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