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Why, surely anyone, gentlemen, before the amounts of the two had been revealed, would have thought that the property of Nicophemus was a mere fraction of that of Conon . Now, Aristophanes had acquired a house with land for more than five talents, had produced dramas on his own account and on his father’s at a cost of five thousand drachmae, 1 and had spent eighty minae 2 on equipping warships;
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Why, surely anyone, gentlemen, before the amounts of the two had been revealed, would have thought that the property of Nicophemus was a mere fraction of that of Conon . Now, Aristophanes had acquired a house with land for more than five talents, had produced dramas on his own account and on his father’s at a cost of five thousand drachmae, 1 and had spent eighty minae 2 on equipping warships;
On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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