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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 590: Hypereides' household
Myrtilus is listing the courtesans the orator Hypereides kept, and comes to the one he defended. Grapevine: Idomeneus of Lampsacus wrote gossipy lives of Athenian politicians around 300 BC.
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Myrtilus
εἶχενeîchenhe kept,ἐνeninΠειραιεῖPeiraieîthe PiraeusδὲdèandἈρισταγόρανAristagóranAristagora,ΦίλανPhílanPhilaδ’d’andἐνenatἘλευσῖνιEleusîniEleusis,Read on word by word in the reader ›
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- 590d Hypereides' household. …he kept, and Aristagora in the Piraeus, and Phila at Eleusis, whom he had…
- 590e The trial of Phryne. So says Hermippus. Hypereides, defending Phryne, was getting nowhere with his speech, and the…
- 590f Lovelier where no one looked. …should be tried in view. Phryne was in truth even more beautiful in the…
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