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He on his part encouraged her there in Megara
with confident words, boastfully asserting that if Phrynion should lay hands on
her he would have cause to rue it, whereas he himself would keep her as his wife
and would introduce the sons whom she then had to his clansmen as being his own,
and would make them citizens; and he promised that no one in the world should
harm her. So he brought her with him from Megara to Athens, and with her her
three children, Proxenus and Ariston and a daughter whom they now call Phano.
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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