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Habitually both laymen and rhetoricians make use of the name of chremata in application to coins of silver and gold, and they also assigned this expression to the whole property. "[...] that the killer is taint-free and dies and his chremata are sold."¹ The expression is also applied to a concrete reality [or: something implying some business] or to a person [or: character] or to a speech, as Antiphon [does];² and they also assign the expression to mercantile wares. Lysias applies [it] to the furnishing of gold.³