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The cause and manner of it I will set forth in the fewest possible words. He had a freed-woman, gentlemen, who managed a tenement-house of his at the Peiraeus and kept prostitutes. As one of these she acquired a woman of the name of Alce, whom I think many of you know. This Alce, after her purchase, lived the life of a prostituteκαθήστο ἐν οἰκήματι = in cella meretricia sedebat, a technical term that refers to the activities of a working prostitute (see Wyse ad loc. in The Speeches of Isaeus, Cambridge, 1904). for many years but gave it up when she became too old.
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While she was still living in the tenement-house, she had relations with a freedman whose name was Dion, whom she declared to be the father of these young men; and Dion did, in fact, bring them up as his own children. Some time later Dion, having committed a misdemeanor and being afraid of the consequences, withdrew to Sicyon. The woman Alce was then installed by Euctemon to look after his tenement-house in the Cerameicus,The “Potters' Quarter” at Athens, partly inside and partly outside the walls near the Dipylon Gate (see Frazer's note on Paus. 1.2.4). near the postern gate, where wine is sold.
