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Now
observe the base love of gain and the villainous character of this fellow
Stephanus, in order that from this again you may be convinced that this Neaera
is not an Athenian woman. Epaenetus, of Andros,1 an old lover
of Neaera, who had spent large sums of money upon her, used to lodge with these
people whenever he came to Athens on account of his affection for Neaera.
Against him this man Stephanus laid a plot.
1 The large island off the south-eastern end of Euboea.
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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