bautista’s Reviews > The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity > Status Update

"This, of course, brings up the possibility that the Punic women were acquiring dowry money by mugging people, literally an iniuria (assault) against the body (corporis). Maybe they threatened to spit at people who didn’t pay up. This seems unlikely, though, especially if Valerius Maximus was not, as I suspect, a Monty Python fanatic."