Demosthenes, Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera, ed. William Rennie, 122

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[122] τὸ γὰρ συνοικεῖν τοῦτʼ ἔστιν, ὃς ἂν παιδοποιῆται καὶ εἰσάγῃ εἴς τε τοὺς φράτερας καὶ δημότας τοὺς υἱεῖς, καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας ἐκδιδῷ ὡς αὑτοῦ οὔσας τοῖς ἀνδράσιν. τὰς μὲν γὰρ ἑταίρας ἡδονῆς ἕνεκʼ ἔχομεν, τὰς δὲ παλλακὰς τῆς καθʼ ἡμέραν θεραπείας τοῦ σώματος, τὰς δὲ γυναῖκας τοῦ παιδοποιεῖσθαι γνησίως καὶ τῶν ἔνδον φύλακα πιστὴν ἔχειν. ὥστʼ εἰ πρότερον ἔγημεν γυναῖκα ἀστὴν καὶ εἰσὶν οὗτοι οἱ παῖδες ἐξ ἐκείνης καὶ μὴ Νεαίρας, ἐξῆν αὐτῷ ἐκ τῆς ἀκριβεστάτης μαρτυρίας ἐπιδεῖξαι, παραδόντι τὰς θεραπαίνας ταύτας.

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1931.

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κατὰ Νεαίρας (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.)

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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).) — 122 focus

[122] For this is what living with a woman as one’s wife means—to have children by her and to introduce the sons to the members of the clan and of the deme, and to betroth the daughters to husbands as one’s own. Mistresses we keep for the sake of pleasure, concubines for the daily care of our persons, but wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households. If, therefore, Stephanus had previously married an Athenian woman, and these children are hers and not Neaera’s, he could have shown it by the most certain evidence, by delivering up these women-servants for the torture.

Demosthenes Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera 122

ed. William Rennie

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