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And they kept her and made use of her
as long a time as they pleased. When, however, they were about to marry, they
gave her notice that they did not want to see her, who had been their own
mistress, plying her trade in Corinth or living under the control of a
brothel-keeper; but that they would be glad to recover from her less than they
had paid down, and to see her reaping some advantage for herself. They offered,
therefore, to remit one thousand drachmae toward the price of her freedom, five
hundred drachmae apiece; and they bade her, when she found the means, to pay
them the twenty minae. When she heard this proposal from Eucrates and
Timanoridas, she summoned to Corinth among others who had been her lovers
Phrynion of Paeania,1 the son of
Demon and the brother of Demochares, a man who was living a licentious and
extravagant life, as the older ones among you remember.
1 Paeania, a deme of the tribe Pandionis. Demochares is mentioned several times in Dem. 47.22, Dem. 47.28, Dem. 47.32）. The Demon here mentioned was possibly the uncle of Demosthenes.
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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