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From a passage in Festus, it would seem that this was first put into practice in Campania: "harlots were called 'aelicariae', 'spelt-mill girls, in Campania, being accustomed to ply for gain before the mills of the spelt-millers." "Common strumpets, bakers' mistresses, refuse the spelt-mill girls," says Plautus, i, ii, 54.
See Lemaire's Virgil, vol. vi, p. 521; commentary of Servius on AEneid, lib. viii, 631. AElicariae Bakers' girls. Noctiluae Night walkers. Blitidae A very low class deriving their name from a cheap drink sold in the dens they frequented. Forariae Country girls who frequented the roads.
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