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Where has this woman not prostituted herself? To what place
has she not gone in quest of her daily wage? Has she not been everywhere in the
Peloponnesus, in Thessaly and in Magnesia1 in the
company of Simus of Larisa2 and Eurydamas son of Medeius, in Chios3 and most
of Ionia, following in the train of Sotadas the Cretan, and was she not let out
for hire by Nicaretê so long as she belonged to her? What do you
suppose a woman does who is subject to men who are not her kinsfolk, and who
follows in the train of him who pays her? Does she not serve all the lusts of
those who deal with her? Will you, then, declare by your vote that a woman of
this stamp, who is known by everybody beyond all question to have plied her
trade the whole world over, is an Athenian citizen?
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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