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Stephanus brought suit for
alimony against him in the Odeum1 in accordance with the law which
enacts that, if a man puts away his wife, he must pay back the marriage portion
or else pay interest on it at the rate of nine obols a month for each mina2; and
that on the woman's behalf her guardian may sue him for alimony in the Odeum.
Phrastor, on his part, preferred an indictment against Stephanus before the
Thesmothetae, charging that he had betrothed to him, being an Athenian, the
daughter of an alien woman as though she were his own. This was in accordance
with the following law.Read it, please.“LawIf anyone shall
give an alien woman in marriage to an Athenian man, representing her as
being related to himself, he shall lose his civic rights and his property
shall be confiscated, and a third part of it shall belong to the one who
secures his conviction. And anyone entitled to do so may indict such a
person before the Thesmothetae, just as in the case of usurpation of
citizenship.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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