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This was the amount of productive
capital which my father left, as these men will themselves admit, the principal
amounting to four talents and five thousand drachmae,1 and the proceeds to
fifty minae each year. Besides this, he left ivory and iron, used in the
factory, and wood for sofas, worth about eighty minae; and gall2 and copper, which he had bought for seventy
minae; furthermore, a house worth three thousand drachmae, and furniture and
plate, and my mother's jewelry and apparel and ornaments, worth in all ten
thousand drachmae, and in the house eighty minae in silver.
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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