Notes on Attic Tribes in the case of Neaira

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The action is brought nominally against
Neaira but really against a fellow
called Stephanos who kept Neaira
or rather made her keep him. He passed her
off as his wife -ie as a lawfully born
Athenian woman - and gave her daughter
Phano in marriage to one Phrastor.
When Phrastor found out that Phano
was the daughter of an alien slave and
prostitute, he turned her off. But afterward
being sick + expecting to die he consented
to get his son by her enrolled in his
genos in order to divert the inheritance
from his relations with whom he was
on bad terms. This is brought out in
evidence to show that Stephanos had
been guilty of palming off an alien
base born woman upon an Athenian
citizen - a heinous offence against the law.
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(another
reading from [Greek script]) [9 lines of Greek script]

"For when Phrastor in his sickness brought
in his son whom he had by Neaira's daughter
to the phrators and to the Brytidai' [underlined] of whom
Phrastor thimself is a Gennetes, they the
Gennetes (for the reasons specifically
mentioned in the clause omitted by me)