Life of Pericles, 1.30.4

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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4But the Megarians denied the murder of Anthemocritus, and threw the blame for Athenian hate on Aspasia and Pericles, appealing to those far-famed and hackneyed versicles of the “Acharnians”:—

“Simaetha, harlot, one of Megara’s womankind,

Was stolen by gilded youths more drunk than otherwise;

And so Megarians, pangs of wrath all reeking hot,

Paid back the theft and raped of Aspasia’s harlots two.”[56]

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