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Propertius not only writes with the hetairai in his mind, but, like his Alexandrian models, he appears as one who is forever writing love-poems without ever being really in love.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

In actual life a certain chivalrous attitude toward women existed at most toward hetairai, in which case, as a matter of course, it was adulterated with a very unpleasant ingredient of frivolous sentimentality….

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

We prefer this side of the art of Legrand to his studies of sinister jail-birds, hetairai, noctambules, high kickers, and private bars, the horrors of Parisian night life.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

For these Grecian hetairai comprised, in the main, the flower of their generation.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

The only women who were free were the hetairai, those famous ladies who shed a lurid brilliance over the corruption and decline of this great State—a decline wherewith they had, most certainly, much to do.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella