titulum mentīta Lyciscae ("But hiding her black hair with a yellow wig,wearing an old patchwork cloak, she entered the hot brotheland an empty cell of her own; then she offered herself for sale nudewith her nipples covered in gold, using the false name of 'Lycisca'.") The pimp or pander in charge of the brothel, who dismissed the girls at closing time, was called lēnō if male (Juvenal 6.127) and lēna if female. The neuter word scortum could refer to either a male or female prostitute. This word may relate to Latin scorteus, "made of leather or hide", much as English refers to the skin trade. Lewis and Short quote Varro: pellem antīquī dīcēbant scortum ("in the old days people referred to skin as scortum"). Another word for a male prostitute, notably one who is no longer a boy, is exolētus (literally "grown up, adult"). Cicero (pro Milone, 21, 55) writes: Clōdius, quī semper sēcum scorta, semper exolētōs, semper lupās dūceret ("Clodius, who always used to take with him whores, and male and female prostitutes") The verb scortor, scortārī, which occurs chiefly in Plautus, means "to go whoring" or "to employ prostitutes". Plautus illustrates its use in Asinaria: quandō mēcum pariter pōtant, pariter scortārī solent,hanc quidem, quam nactus, praedam pariter cum illīs partiam. ("Whenever they go drinking with me, they also usually go whoring with me.So I'll share this booty which I've captured with them equally.") The important and productive words for a prostitute in Romance, *pūta or *pūtāna, are not attested in Classical Latin, despite their many Romance derivatives: French putain and pute, Italian puttana, Spanish, Filipino, Catalan, Portuguese and Galician puta. French linguists state that they relate to Latin pūteō, pūtēre, "to stink," and thus represent yet another metaphor.. Spaniards María Moliner (author of a famous dictionary of Spanish) and Joan Coromines think they came from Vulgar Latin *putta, feminine form of *puttus, an emphatic form of pūtus, "pure" or "boy". In Portugal, the word puto has the same connotation as "small kid" or "little boy"; in Brazil, on the other hand, it is slang for "pissed off" or enraged males in general or as a colloquial, mildly offensive term for male escorts (more formally called prostitutos or michês) – the male counterpart of the slang puta, with the same meanings. In popular culture The HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome depicts the city with the grit and grime that