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For this is what
living with a woman as one's wife means—to have children by her and to
introduce the sons to the members of the clan and of the deme, and to betroth
the daughters to husbands as one's own. Mistresses we keep for the sake of
pleasure, concubines for the daily care of our persons, but wives to bear us
legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households. If,
therefore, Stephanus had previously married an Athenian woman, and these
children are hers and not Neaera's, he could have shown it by the most certain
evidence, by delivering up these women-servants for the torture.
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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