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He established her and her children in the
cottage which he had near the Whispering Hermes1 between the house of
Dorotheus the Eleusinian and that of Cleinomachus—the cottage which
Spintharus has now bought from him for seven minae; so the property which
Stephanus owned was just this and nothing besides. There were two reasons why he
brought her here: first, because he would have a beautiful mistress without
cost, and secondly, because her earnings would procure supplies and maintain the
house; for he had no other income save what he might get by pettifoggery.
1 We do not know where this statue stood.
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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