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Although this woman, then, was acknowledged beyond all
question to be an alien, and although Stephanus had had the audacity to charge
with adultery a man taken with her, these two, Stephanus and Neaera, came to
such a pitch of insolence and shamelessness that they were not content with
asserting her to be of Athenian birth; but observing that Theogenes, of
Cothocidae,1 had been drawn by lot as
king,2 a man
of good birth, but poor and without experience in affairs, this Stephanus, who
had assisted him at his scrutiny and had helped him meet his expenses when he
entered upon his office, wormed his way into his favor, and by buying the
position from him got himself appointed his assessor.3 He then gave him in marriage this woman, the
daughter of Neaera, and betrothed her to him as being his own daughter; so
utterly did he scorn you and your laws.
1 Cothocidae, a deme of the tribe Oeneïs. Since in Dem. 59.84 Theogenes is said to be from the deme Erchia, some have thought that in the present passage Κοθωκίδην may be a corruption of a patronymic, and not the name of a deme.
2 That is, as king-archon.
3 See note b on Dem. 58.32.
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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