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This fellow Stephanus was getting nothing worth
mentioning from public business, for he was not yet a public speaker, but thus
far merely a pettifogger, one of those who stand beside the platform and shout,
who prefer indictments and informations for hire, and who let their names be
inscribed on motions made by others, up to the day when he became an underling
of Callistratus of Aphidna.1 How this came about
and for what cause I will tell you in detail regarding this matter also, when I
shall have proved regarding this woman Neaera that she is an alien and is guilty
of grievous wrongs against you and of impiety towards the gods;
1 A prominent orator and politician, often mentioned by Demosthenes.
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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