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 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.
Furthermore, men of the jury, I shall prove to you from the account which they render, and from the receipts admitted by themselves, that these three men have in their possession more than eight talents of my money, and that of this amount Aphobus has separately taken three talents and one thousand drachmae.
But as it is, on my demanding it, they admit that there was a will, but they do not produce it;
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.
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.
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.