[45]
1 For it cannot be supposed that he would wish to
leave me, his son, in poverty, and be eager further to enrich these men, who
were already wealthy. No; it was because of the size of the estate left to me
that he gave to Therippides the interest on seventy minae, and to Demophon that
on the two talents—though he was not yet to marry my sister. These
moneys it has been proved that Aphobus never gave over to me, nor even an amount
slightly less. Part of it he said he had spent, part he had never received, part
he knew nothing about, part was in the hands of so-and-so, part was in the
house, and of part he could say anything except when and where he had paid it
over.
1 The following passage up to the middle of the section is repeated almost verbatim from Dem. 27.45
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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