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After this,
then, she had two lovers, Timanoridas the Corinthian and Eucrates the
Leucadian.1 These men seeing that Nicaretê was
extravagant in the sums she exacted from them, for she demanded that they should
supply the entire daily expenses of the household, paid down to
Nicaretê thirty minae as the price of Neaera's person, and purchased
the girl outright from her in accordance with the law of the city, to be their
slave.
1 Leucas or Santa Maura, off the west coast of Acarnania.
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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