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Maddened by these indignities, she jumped to her
feet, upset the table, and fell at the knees of Iatrocles. If he had not rescued
her, she would have perished, the victim of a drunken orgy, for the drunkenness
of this blackguard is something terrible. The story of this girl was told even
in Arcadia, at a meeting of the Ten
Thousand1; it was related by Diophantus at
Athens in a report which I will
compel him to repeat in evidence; and it was common talk in Thessaly and everywhere.
1 The Assembly of the Arcadian Confederacy, meeting at Megalopolis.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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