Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II

Reference: 423. 424 M.

because they would offer themselves only at night; prostibula [are so named] because they would stand before the stable for the sake of daily and nightly profit. Plautus in the Cistellaria most clearly distinguished them:

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I will go inside. Surely it is, for a meretrix to stand in the way
alone, that is healthy for a prostibulum.

Genetrix mother/birth-mother has this distance from mater mother, because a genetrix is always named as she who has given birth; mater is sometimes used for a nurse. Vergil book VIII:

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around her breasts,
the twin boys playing and hanging, and licking their mother
unafraid.

Plautus in the Menaechmi:

With form so similar to the boys, that their mother
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could not distinguish which was giving the breast,
nor indeed the mother herself, who had borne them.

Pudet it shames and piget it irks/disgusts differ in this. For pudere is of modesty, pigere is of repentance. Plautus in the Pseudolus:

It is carried much more easily that which shames, than that which irks:
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it shames him not to have given; it irks me because I have not received.

The same in the Trinummus:

Truly it is better to be ashamed than to be irked, by the same number of letters.

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Accius in the Neoptolemo:

It hurts and shames me of the Greeks, and truly it irks me.

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