Coming from the seven-hilled city, he handed over 24 minae and 48 --- a debt owed to Camillus --- and himself owing 24 minae from the Crotonian holdings and 48 from the Chersonesian, and to have inherited 640, 40. Of these not an obol has been paid out, all of it being owed since the first of the second month. His freedman --- the one who shares a name with the father of Conon --- has given the whole matter not a moment's thought. So then, first that everything may be saved, second that you not pass over the interest from the date already set down: how much we have endured at his hands I am very much afraid. For he was here with us, reconnoitring and hoping for something or other; then, despairing for no good reason, he withdrew, throwing out as he went,
Cicero's Greek paraphrase of a debt-management report
Source Cicero, Ad Atticum (paraphrase)
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Loeb's English of Cicero's confidential Greek about freedmen's financial juggling. The whole passage is cited as one item.