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He
sent for him to come to the country under pretence of a sacrifice and then,
having surprised him in adultery with the daughter of this Neaera, intimidated
him and extorted from him thirty minae. As sureties for this sum he accepted
Aristomachus, who had served as Thesmothete, and Nausiphilus, the son of
Nausinicus, who had served as archon,1 and then released him under pledge that he would pay the money.
1 Nausinicus was archon eponymos in 378-377 B.C.
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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