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Since, then,
she was treated with wanton outrage by Phrynion, and was not loved as she
expected to be, and since her wishes were not granted by him, she packed up his
household goods and all the clothing and jewelry with which he had adorned her
person, and, taking with her two maid-servants, Thratta and
Coccalinêe, ran off to Megara. This was the period when Asteius was
archon at Athens,1 at
the time you were waging your second war against the Lacedaemonians.
1 That is, in 372 B.C.; Alcisthenes was archon the year following.
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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