[65]. Pol. i. 8. 1256b2.
[66]. Haney, op. cit., p. 17.
[67]. Emphasized by Poehlmann, op. cit., I, 593 f. Our citations will always be from the second edition, 1912.
[68]. To judge by Xen. Mem., this might have been said of Socrates had he been a writer.
[69]. Robin (Platon et la science sociale, p. 239) makes him the forerunner of the triple division of economics—production, exchange, distribution—but this is hardly warranted.
[70]. Rep. 369 B-C.
[71]. Pol. i. chap. 2. But in the Laws, Plato’s theory of origins is more social, tracing society back to clan and family.
[72]. Cf. Laws 889 D-E, 709 B-D, and Robin, op. cit., pp. 224 f.; also the entire argument of the Republic on justice.
[73]. Laws 921B. The word is ἀξία.
[74]. Ibid.: γιγνώσκει γὰρ ὅγε δημιουργὸς τὴν ἀξίαν.