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I for my part wonder what in the world they
will say to you in their defense. Will it be that this woman Neaera is of
Athenian birth, and that she lives as his wife with Stephanus in accordance with
the laws? But testimony has been offered, showing that she is a courtesan, and
has been the slave of Nicaretê. Or will they claim that she is not his
wife, but that he keeps her in his house as a concubine? Yet the woman's sons,
by having been introduced to the clansmen by Stephanus, and her daughter, by
having been given in marriage to an Athenian husband, prove beyond question that
he keeps her as his wife.
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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