The Three Guardians
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the guardians · the trustees · these men · his co-trustees · his guardians · they
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Against Aphobus I
The three men jointly appointed as guardians of the estate—Aphobus, Demophon, and Therippides—collectively accused of embezzlement.
But as it is, on my demanding it, they admit that there was a will, but they do not produce it;
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);
But these men, who took at once their own legacies from the estate, and as my guardians administered all the remainder for ten years, have robbed me of my entire fortune except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae, which they have handed over to me—amounting in all to about seventy minae.
Against Aphobus II
Aphobus, Demophon, and Therippides collectively, appointed as joint guardians of the speaker's estate and accused of jointly mismanaging and embezzling it.
You have acted jointly as my guardians, but thereafter you scheme each one for himself.
but the will itself, which gave them possession of the papers to which they affixed their seals, and all the rest of the property, and which acquitted them of all responsibility for not letting the estate, they did not seal, nor yet produce.
For my father, men of the jury, when he saw that he was not to recover from his sickness, called together these three men, and causing his brother Demon to sit with them by his side, placed our persons in their hands, calling us a sacred deposit.