[51]
Phrastor, seeing that she was not a decent woman and that
she was not minded to listen to his advice, and, further, having learned now
beyond all question that she was the daughter, not of Stephanus, but of Neaera,
and that he had been deceived in the first place at the time of the betrothal,
when he had received her as the daughter, not of Neaera, but of Stephanus by an
Athenian woman, whom he had married before he lived with
Neaera—angered at all this and considering that he had been treated
with outrage and hoodwinked, he put away the woman after living with her for
about a year, she being pregnant at the time, and refused to pay back the
marriage portion.
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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