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Now read the
challenge itself which I tendered to this Stephanus.“ChallengeApollodorus
tendered this challenge to Stephanus in connection with the indictment which
he preferred against Neaera, charging that she, being an alien, is living as
wife with him, a citizen. Apollodorus is ready to receive for examination by
the torture the women-servants of Neaera, Thratta and Coccalinê,
whom she brought with her from Megara, and those whom she subsequently
purchased while living with Stephanus—Xennis, namely, and
Drosis—women who have accurate knowledge regarding the children of
Neaera, that they are not by Stephanus. These are Proxenus, who died,
Ariston, who is now living, Antidorides the runner, and Phano. And if they
agreed that these children are Neaera's, I demanded that Neaera be sold as a
slave in accordance with the law, and that her children be declared aliens;
but if they agreed that the children are not hers but were born of some
other woman who was an Athenian, then I offered to withdraw from the action
against Neaera, and if the women had been injured in any way as a result of
the torture, to pay for the injuries sustained.”
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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