Laïs in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The elder, a native probably of Corinth, lived in the time of the Peloponnesian War, and was celebrated as the most beautiful woman of that age. She was notorious also for her avarice and caprice. One of her lovers was the Cyrenaic philosopher Aristippus, two of whose works were inscribed with her name. In her old age she took to drink. At her death she was buried in Corinth, and over her was placed a monument representing a lioness tearing a ram. So much was her reputation a part of that of her city that there arose the proverb οὐ Κόρινθος οὔτε Λαΐς. A number of anecdotes regarding her are preserved in Athenaeus.