28. You have heard the witnesses, gentlemen of the jury. Now taking as a
basis the money which he finally acknowledged to have, I will reckon from
that, taking no income into account, but spending from the principal. I
will allow what no one in the city does, for the two boys, their sister,
teacher, and maid a thousand drachmae a year, a little less than three
drachmae a day, amounting in eight years to eight thousand drachmae, (29)
which shows a balance of six talents from the seven talents twenty minae.
For he could not show that he has lost to pirates nor suffered loss, nor
paid creditors (for the father).