Demosthenes, Against Aphobus I, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 35

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[35] They confess to have received from my estate, Aphobus one hundred and eight minae (besides what I shall now show to be in his hands); Therippides two talents; and Demophon eighty-seven minae. This makes altogether five talents and fifteen minae. Of this sum there are nearly seventy-seven minae, the income from the slaves, which were not received all at once, and a little less than four talents of which they got possession immediately. Now, if you add to this last sum the interest for ten years, reckoned at a drachma only¹ you will find that the whole, principal and interest, amounts to eight talents and four thousand drachmae.

Against Aphobus I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Against Aphobus I (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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κατὰ Ἀφόβου ἐπιτροπῆς α΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 35 focus

[35] λαβεῖν γὰρ ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν ὁμολογοῦσιν οὗτος μὲν ὀκτὼ καὶ ἑκατὸν μνᾶς, χωρὶς ὧν ἔχοντʼ αὐτὸν ἐγὼ ἐπιδείξω νῦν, Θηριππίδης δὲ δύο τάλαντα, Δημοφῶν δʼ ἑπτὰ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς. τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶ πέντε τάλαντα καὶ πεντεκαίδεκα μναῖ. τούτου τοίνυν ὃ μὲν οὐχ ἅθρουν ἐλήφθη, σχεδόν εἰσιν ἑβδομήκοντα μναῖ καὶ ἑπτά, ἡ πρόσοδος ἡ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδραπόδων, ὃ δʼ εὐθὺς ἔλαβον οὗτοι, μικροῦ δέοντα τέτταρα τάλαντα· οἷς τὸ ἔργον ἂν προσθῆτʼ ἐπὶ δραχμῇ μόνον τῶν δέκʼ ἐτῶν, ὀκτὼ τάλανθʼ εὑρήσετε σὺν τοῖς ἀρχαίοις καὶ χιλίας γιγνομένας.

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Against Aphobus I

1. That is, at 12 percent, as above. Demosthenes is liberal indeed in his allowances. The entire sum of seventy-seven minae is crossed off as balanced by expenditures; the interest on four talents for ten years is set down as four talents forty minae, instead of four talents forty-eight minae, so that the total amount becomes eight talents and forty minae. From this there are deducted the moneys paid to him (thirty-one minae) and those paid in taxes (set down as thirty minae, instead of eighteen) and the balance (roughly, eight talents less one talent), is reckoned as seven talents.

Demosthenes Against Aphobus I 35

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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