A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[855]. For discussion of all the Economica, cf. infra.

[856]. Born ca. 370 B.C. (Zeller, op. cit., II, 2, 807, n. 1), a voluminous writer, from whom a substantial amount is extant, notably his Characters.

[857]. περὶ πλούτου (Aspas. in Eth. 451; and Cic. De officiis ii. 16. 56).

[858]. Cf. Zeller, op. cit., II, 2, 856.

[859]. Stob. Flor. iv. 283, No. 202, ed. Mein.: ὁ αὐτὸς (Theophrastus) ἔλεγεν ὀφείλομεν ἑαυτοὺς ἐθίζειν ἀπὸ ὀλίγων ζῆν, etc.

[860]. Theophrasti Opera, ed. Wimmer, iii. 231. fr. 86 f.; Plut. Lycurg. 10.

[861]. Theoph. Op. iii. 182. fr. 78: οὐδὲν πλέον ἔχουσιν οἱ πλούσιοι τῶν μέτρια κεκτημένων, etc. (Plut. Cupid. Divit. 527).

[862]. Cic. De officiis ii. 16. 56.

[863]. Porph. De abstin. iii. 25.

[864]. Cf. above on Xenophon.