The Great Market (Macellum Magnum) was in this district, and many cook-shops, stalls, barber shops, et cet.

as well; the office of the public executioner, the barracks for foreign soldiers quartered at Rome; this district was one of the busiest and most densely populated in the entire city.

Such conditions would naturally be ideal for the owner of a house of ill fame, or for a pandar.

The regular brothels are described as having been exceedingly dirty, smelling of the gas generated by the flame of the smoking lamp, and of the other odors which always haunted these ill ventilated dens.

Horace, Sat.