A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[665]. 1260a2-4; 14-16; cf. 33 ff., which sets a limit on the slave’s virtue.

[666]. 1260a39-42; 1260b2 f. Cf. Ruskin, Fors Clav., III, Letter 28, 14, on the virtue of the “menial” condition.

[667]. Cf. Barker, op. cit., p. 370.

[668]. N. Eth. 1161b1-10, especially 5: ᾗ μὲν οῦν δοῦλος, οὔκ ἐστι φιλία πρὸς αὐτόν, ᾗ δ᾽ ἄνθρωπος.

[669]. Cf. his reference to Cleisthenes’ gift of Athenian citizenship to many slaves; also his own emancipation, by will, of five of his own slaves (Diog. L. V. 1. 9).

[670]. Cf. Barker, op. cit., p. 370.

[671]. Sesame and Lilies, end of lecture on “Kings’ Treasuries”; cf. Fors Clav., VII, 9 (Vol. XXIX, 230); Mun. Pul., 130, note; cf. Fors Clav., III (Vol. XXVII, 515 f.). Lett. 28, 13 ff., on the workman as a serf.

[672]. Barker, op. cit., 368.

[673]. On the servile condition of the modern laborer, cf. Ruskin as above; a common idea also of Carlyle and of many modern economic writings.

[674]. Pol. 1257a31 ff., praised for its exactness and insight. Cf. Poehlmann, op. cit., I, 585; Dühring (op. cit., p. 23) belittles it. Newman (op. cit., II, 184) points to ξενικωτέρας as implying that the increased distance between buyers and sellers also caused the origin of money.