A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[75]. Cf. p. [15], n. 7 above.

[76]. Euthydemus 280B-E, 281B, D, 288E-289A; Meno 88D-E.

[77]. Unto This Last, IV, 62: “Useful articles that we can use”; 64: “Wealth is the possession of the valuable by the valiant” (Vol. XVII, 86 ff.); Fors Clavigera, Letter 70 (Vol. XXVIII, 712 ff.); Munera Pulveris, I, 14 (Vol. XVII, 154); II, 35 (Vol. XVII, 166 f.). Plato’s economic ideas greatly influenced Ruskin. Cf. infra, p. [149], n. 2. Cf. also Vol. XXXVIII, 112; XXXIX, 411, of Ruskin. He says, in the preface to Unto This Last (Vols. XVII, XVIII), that his “real purpose is to give ... a logical definition of wealth,” which has “often been given incidentally in good Greek by Plato and Xenophon.” Cf. ibid., n. 1, for other such references.

[78]. Ibid.

[79]. Cf. above note and Mun. Pul., II, 30, notes; Fors Clav., Letter 70, 3 (Vol. XXVII, 713), the “good things.”

[80]. Fors Clav., Lett. 70, 8 f. (Vol. XXVIII, 718 ff.), where he refers to Plato’s Laws 727A.

[81]. Cf. infra for citations.

[82]. Cf. p. [23] and notes.

[83]. Laws 697B, 631C, 728A, 870B; Apol. 29D-E.

[84]. Apol. 30B; also Laws 743E; Gorg. 451E; cf. Ruskin, Fors Clav., Lett. 70, 6 and 11 (Vol. XXVIII, 717), where he cites Laws 726-728A, on the value of the soul. He also cites Laws 742-743 and Rep. 416E (cf. Mun. Pul. [Vol. XVII, 89, 148]).