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Where, for example, several men hire one house and occupy it, dividing it between them, we call it an apartment house, but where one man only dwells, a house. And if perchance a physician moves into one of these shops on the street, it is called a surgery. But if he moves out and a smith moves into this same shop, it is called a smithy; if a fuller, a laundry; if a carpenter, a carpenter’ s shop; and if a pimp and his harlots, from the trade itself it gets its name of brothel. So that you have made many a house a brothel by the facility with which you have plied your profession. Ask not, then, where it was that you practised it, but make this your defence, that you have never done the thing.
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But it seems that we are to have another argument, too, concocted by the same sophist. For he says that nothing is more unjust than common report, and he goes to the market-place for his evidence, the sort of thing that is quite in harmony with his own life. He says firstSome of Aeschines’ anticipations of the arguments of his opponents would be possible in the preparation of his speech for the court-room; others were probably added to the speech as prepared for publication, after the speeches for the defence had been heard. Probably some of these were given extempore in court. that the apartment house in Colonus which is called Demon’ s is falsely named, for it does not belong to Demon. Again, that the herm called the Herm of Andocides is not that of Andocides, but a votive offering of the tribe Aegeis.
