Proclos the son of Pilosphos asked of Rabban Gamliel in Acco, while he (lit., who was) was bathing in the bathhouse of Aph-rodite. He said to him, “It is written in your Torah: Nothing of that which is banned shall cleave to your hand. Why then do you bathe in the bathhouse of Aphrodite?” He replied, “One may not answer in the bathhouse.” And when he went out he said to him, “I did not come into her domain; she came into my domain. We do not say: The bathhouse is made as an adornment to Aphrodite, but we say: Aphrodite is made as an adornment to the bathhouse. Another reason: [Even] if they would pay you a large sum of money, you would [still] not enter before your idol naked, or with a seminal emission, or uri-nate before it. Yet this one stands by the opening of the sewer pipe, and all the people urinate in front of her! It is stated on-ly their gods —- that which is treated as a god is prohibited, but that which is not treated as a god is permitted.”