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The fact is that you can instance no other woman in the city whom I have wronged in this way, and as for the subject of your present charge, what view did you take of her? Was she right to live with Charippus, an Athenian citizen who was her husband; or was she growing old unmarried in her home,This passage is not very clearly expressed in the Greek. Lycophron is answering the charge that he causes women (a) to grow old unmarried; (b) to live with the wrong men. Taking these points in the reverse order he retorts by asking whether in the present case the woman is (b) doing wrong by living with her legal husband or (a) growing old unmarried. In view of the words οὐπροσήκει in § l2 above, a negative before προδήκειν would make the sense of what follows much clearer. Kirchhoff’s suggested emendation is therefore rather tempting. she who was married at once, as soon as Euphemus supplied a talent of silver as a dowry, obviously with no ulterior motive but simply out of kindness?Probably Ariston had alleged that Euphemus was acting in collusion with Lycophron, but we have no details.
