XEE4407172 Lais, originally from Sicily, was captured and taken as a slave to Corinth. She became the mistress of Aristippe, Demosthene and Diogene the cynical. Engraving in ???he history of prostitution and debauche among all the peoples of the world from antiquity to the present day??by Dr. Th. -F. Debray. 1879. by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lais, originally from Sicily, was captured and taken as a slave to Corinth. She became the mistress of Aristippe, Demosthene and Diogene the cynical. Engraving in ???he history of prostitution and debauche among all the peoples of the world from antiquity to the present day??by Dr. Th. -F. Debray. 1879.); Stefano Bianchetti.