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He listened gladly to these words of hers,and taking the money which had been
paid in to her by her other lovers added the balance himself and paid the twenty
minae as the price of her freedom to Eucrates and Timanoridas on the condition
that she should not ply her trade in Corinth.To
prove that these statements of mine are true, I will call as witness to them the
man who was present.Please call Philagrus of
Melitê.1“DepositionPhilagrus of
Melitê deposes that he was present in Corinth when Phrynion, the
brother of Demochares, paid down twenty minae as the price of Neaera, the
present defendant, to Timanoridas, the Corinthian, and Eucrates, the
Leucadian; and that after paying down the money Phrynion went off to Athens,
taking Neaera with him.”
1 Melitê, a deme of the tribe Cecropis.
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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