The Barmaid (Copa), attributed to Virgil, proves that even the proprietress had two strings to her bow, and Horace, Sat.lib.i, v, 82, in describing his excursion to Brundisium, narrates his experience, or lack of it, with a waitress in an inn.

This passage, it should be remarked, is the only one in all his works in which he is absolutely sincere in what he says of women.

"Here like a triple fool I waited till midnight for a lying jade till sleep overcame me, intent on venery; in that filthy vision the dreams spot my night clothes and my belly, as I lie upon my back." In the AEserman inscription (Mommsen, Inscr.

Regn.

Neap.