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To prove the truth of
my statements—that the defendant belonged to Nicaretê and
followed in her train, and that she prostituted her person to anyone who wished
to pay for it—I will call Philostratus as witness to these
facts.“DepositionPhilostratus, son of Dionysius, of Colonus, deposes
that he knows that Neaera was a slave of Nicaretê, to whom
Metaneira also belonged, that they were residents of Corinth, and that they
stayed at his house when they came to Athens for the mysteries, and that
Lysias the son of Cephalêus, who was an intimate friend of his,
established them in his house.”
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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