She of whom Catullus speaks in connection with the lofty souled descendants of Remus was of this stripe.
From many passages in the ancient authors it is evident that harlots stood naked at the doors of their cells: "I saw some men prowling stealthily between the rows of name-boards and naked prostitutes," Petronius, chap.7.

"She entered the brothel, cozy with its crazy-quilt, and the empty cell--her own.

Then, naked she stands, with gilded nipples, beneath the tablet of the pretended Lysisca," Juvenal, Sat.

vi, 121 et seq.

In some cases they had recourse to a gossamer tissue of silk gauze, as was formerly the custom in Paris, Chicago, and San Francisco.