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You have heard
the law, men of the jury, which forbids the union of an alien woman with an
Athenian, or of an Athenian woman with an alien in any way or manner whatsoever,
or the procreation of children. And if any persons shall transgress this law, it
has provided that there shall be an indictment against them before the
Thesmothetae, against both the alien man and the alien woman, and that, if
convicted, any such person shall be sold. I wish, therefore, to prove to you
convincingly from the very beginning that this woman Neaera is an alien.
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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