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Now let me
bring before you another deposition of Phrastor and his clansmen and the members
of his gens, which proves that the defendant Neaera is an alien. Not long after
Phrastor had sent away the daughter of Neaera, he fell sick. He got into a
dreadful condition and became utterly helpless. There was an old quarrel between
him and his own relatives, toward whom he cherished anger and hatred; and
besides he was childless. Being cajoled, therefore, in his illness by the
attentions of Neaera and her daughter—
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