A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[565]. Pol. 1323b, 1-6.

[566]. N. Eth. i. 5. 1096a5 f.: ὁ δὲ χρηματιστὴς βίαιος τίς ἐστιν. Cf. also Pol. 1256b28-32, discussed above, and i., chaps. 8 and 9, discussed under exchange.

[567]. Cf. n. 2.

[568]. Pol. 1323b7-11, and discussion above.

[569]. 1256b36; N. Eth. i. 5. 1906a6 f.; χρήσιμον γὰρ καὶ ἄλλου χάριν; 7. 1097a27: δῆλον ὡς οὔκ ἐστι πάντα τέλεια.

[570]. Pol. i. 9. 1258a2 ff.; cf. also Mag. mor. B. 3. 1200a-b.

[571]. 1258a10-14, similar to Plato Rep. i. on the arts and their function; cf. a similar passage from Isocrates (Paneg. 76) on the virtues of the Persian War heroes.

[572]. Pol. iii. 9. 1280a25-32; the chief ambition of a state is not τῶν κτημάτων χάριν, but εῦ ζῆν. Cf. above on the similar preachments of Plato, for their relation to modern economic ideas and conditions. Cf. Plato Crito 48B: οὐ τὸ ζῆν περὶ πλείστου ποιητέον, ἀλλὰ τὸ εῦ ζῆν.

[573]. Cf. Souchon, op. cit., p. 69; for Greek terms for production, cf. p. [66] and notes.

[574]. i. 10. 1258a19-38; 4. 1254a7: ὁ δὲ βίος πρᾶξις, οὐ ποίησις ἐστιν.