[53]
For my
mentioning the things which I am about to tell you this fellow is himself to
blame, since he refused to settle our differences among our relatives, but chose
to brazen the matter out. For you must know, men of the jury, that this fellow
Olympiodorus has never married an Athenian woman in accordance with your laws;
he has no children nor has ever had any, but he keeps in his house a mistress
whose freedom he had purchased, and it is she who is the ruin of us all and who
drives the man on to a higher pitch of madness.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.