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so, when peace was made in
the archonship of Phrasicleides,1 and the battle was fought at
Leuctra2 between the Thebans and
the Lacedaemonians, this man Stephanus, having at the time come to Megara and
having put up at Neaera's house, as at the house of a courtesan, and having had
intercourse with her, she told him all that had taken place and her brutal
treatment by Phrynion. She gave him besides all that she had brought away from
Phrynion's house, and as she was eager to live at Athens, but was afraid of
Phrynion because she had wronged him and he was bitter against her, and she knew
he was a man of violent and reckless temper, she took Stephanus here for her
patron.3
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