PLAUTO -- dal "Dizionario di letteratura erotica" (Wedeck)

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PLAUTO -- (c. 251--c. 200 B. C.).
---- Roman writer of comedies.
In his "Truculentus" he refers to banks as stations for harlots:
"For if they are nowhere else, at least near the money-changers the harlots and panders sit so to speak daily."