Ivory and Iron
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Against Aphobus I
Raw materials for the sword- and sofa-factories that the father left in stock but which the guardians fail to account for.
Well then, though my father possessed more than fifty slaves and conducted two factories, one of which easily consumed two minae worth of ivory per month for the sofas, while the sword-factory consumed as much more, and iron besides, these men declare that he left no ivory and no iron;
Yet it is impossible that one who possessed so many sofa-makers and so many sword-makers should not also have left iron and ivory.
Of this ivory, you see, there is more than a talent’s worth of which they make no report—neither of the raw material nor of the finished product.
Against Aphobus II
Estate goods sold by Aphobus and allegedly concealed from the speaker, valued at about a talent.
After selling this ivory and iron, he declares that none had been left me, but tries to defraud me of the value of these articles also, about a talent.