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they came while he lay sick and had no one to care for him,
bringing him the medicines suited to his case and looking after his needs; and
you know of yourselves what value a woman has in the sick-room, when she waits
upon a man who is ill—well, he was induced to take back and adopt as
his son the child whom the daughter of this woman Neaera had borne after she was
sent away from his house in a state of pregnancy, after he had learned that she
was the daughter, not of Stephanus, but of Neaera, and was angered at their
deceit.
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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