Ivory and Iron
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ivory and iron · iron · ivory · these articles
in the texts
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.
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.
And yet how large must one suppose the quantity left by my father to have been, when it is shown to have sufficed for such extensive factories, and to have been sold by the guardians besides?
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.