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I prove to you,
therefore, in a manner that leaves no room for doubt that even those most nearly
connected with this woman Neaera have given testimony against her, proving that
she is an alien—Stephanus here, who now keeps the woman and lives with
her, and Phrastor, who took her daughter to wife—Stephanus, since he
refused to go on trial on behalf of this daughter when he was indicted by
Phrastor before the Thesmothetae on the charge that he had betrothed the
daughter of an alien to him who was an Athenian, but had rather relinquished the
claim to the marriage portion, and had not recovered it;
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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