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Forget that I, the speaker, am Apollodorus, and that those
who will support and plead for the defendant are citizens of Athens; but
consider that the laws and Neaera here are contending in a suit regarding the
life which she has led. And when you take up the accusation, listen to the laws
themselves, which are the foundation of your civic life, and in accordance with
which you have sworn to cast your votes, in order that you may hear what they
ordain and in what way the defendants have transgressed them; and when you are
concerned with the defense, bear in mind the charges which the laws prefer and
the proofs offered by the testimony given; and with a glance at the woman's
appearance, consider this and this only—whether she, being Neaera, has
done these things.
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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