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and Phrastor, since he had put away the daughter of this
Neaera after marrying her, when he learned that she was not the daughter of
Stephanus, and had refused to return her marriage portion; and when later on he
was induced by his illness and his childless condition and his enmity toward his
relatives to adopt the child, and when he sought to introduce him to the members
of the gens, and they voted to reject the child and challenged him to take an
oath, he refused to swear, but chose rather to avoid committing perjury, and
subsequently married in accordance with the law another woman who was an
Athenian. These facts, about which there is no room for doubt, have afforded you
convincing testimony against our opponents, proving that this Neaera is an
alien.
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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