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[4] And Aeschines1 says that Lysicles the sheep-dealer, a man of low birth and nature, came to be the first man at Athens by living with Aspasia after the death of Pericles. And in the ‘Menexenus’ of Plato, even though the first part of it be written in a sportive vein, there is, at any rate, thus much of fact, that the woman had the reputation of associating with many Athenians as a teacher of rhetoric.

1 Aeschines the Socratic, in a dialogue entitled ‘Aspasia,’ not extant.

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