Pallake

R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin and a connection with Latin paelex, "mistress," which is also a loanword from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language.

A free concubine was often a former hetaira, a freedwoman or a woman from a poor family, and almost always a foreigner, not a member of the city state she lived in.

[4] An enslaved pallake was usually captured in war and brought back to Greece, either for the use of their captor, or to be sold.

One such account of this appears with Cassandra in Aeschylus' play, where she is brought to Agamemnon's palace as a mistress.

The case made against her alleges that she was a pallake in Corinth and other cities, before coming to Athens.

Mosaic from Antioch depicting a scene from the play Perikeiromene . The woman to the left is identified as Glykera, the pallake of the man in the middle, Polemon. The man to the right is a household slave, Sosias.