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.