Pro Caelio 49

She seems to be a prostitute

Si quae non nupta mulier domum suam patefecerit omnium cupiditati

If a certain woman, not being married, has opened her own home to everyone’s desires

palamque sese in meretricia vita collocarit,

and has openly involved herself in a prostitute’s life,

virorum alienissimorum conviviis uti instituerit,

if she has made a habit of attending the dinner parties of men who are certainly not her own

si hoc in urbe, si in hortis, si in Baiarum illa celebritate faciat, si denique ita sese gerat non incessu solum,

if she does this in the city, in private gardens, in that crowd at Baiae, if finally she behaves herself like this,

sed ornatu atque comitatu, non flagrantia oculorum,

not only in her bearing but in her dress and her in company, not only by the passion in her eyes,

non libertate sermonum, sed etiam complexu, osculatione, actis, navigatione, conviviis,

the freedom of her speech, but even by embraces, kisses, beach parties, boating parties, dinner parties,

ut non solum meretrix, sed etiam proterva meretrix procaxque videatur:

so that she seem to be not only a prostitute, but even an insolent and audacious prostitute:

cum hac si qui adulescens forte fuerit,

if some young man happened to have been with this woman,

utrum hic tibi, L. Herenni, adulter an amator, L. Herenni, adulter an amator, expugnare pudicitiam an explere libidinem voluisse videatur?

does he seem to you, Lucius Herennius, to be an adulterer or a lover assaulting chastity or does he seem to have been wanting to satisfy a desire?