Case, titles and inventory

Meaning

Philon’s opening rebuke uses forensic and documentary vocabulary. A procés or case can be made obscure and partial by suppressing its two best titles of evidence; an inventaire can appear to represent the whole while listing only a lesser part. The target is Timon’s reduction of humanity to bodily misery without adequate acknowledgment of intellectual powers. “Titles” here are evidentiary credentials, not chapter headings or two named ingredients. The two best titles are not locally enumerated, so a reader should not supply a definitive pair merely because the book elsewhere divides the human being in several ways.