 The defense speech however does not survive, but one such possible defense may have been that she was a mistress rather than a prostitute, which was a normal social practice.Another such example occurs in the text "Against the Stepmother for Poisoning", a speech by Antiphon.In this speech for the prosecution, it is alleged that a "pallake" was tricked into poisoning her master, who was to sell her to a brothel, by her master's wife.