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The daughter of this woman Neaera, whom she brought with
her as a small child to the house of Stephanus, and whom they then called
Strybele, but now call Phano, was given in marriage by this fellow Stephanus as
being his own daughter to an Athenian, Phrastor, of Aegilia1; and a
marriage portion of thirty minae was given with her. When she came to the house
of Phrastor, who was a laboring man and one who had acquired his means by frugal
living, she did not know how to adjust herself to his ways, but sought to
emulate her mother's habits and the dissolute manner of living in her house,
having, I suppose, been brought up in such licentiousness.
1 Aegilia, a deme of the tribe Antiochis.
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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