A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[85]. Laws 743E.

[86]. 831C-D. Ruskin (Crown of Wild Olive, 83, Vol. XVIII, 456 f.) cites Critias 120E ff., in urging the same idea. He also cites Plato’s myth of the metals, Rep. 416E, in similar vein (Mun. Pul., III, 89, Vol. XVII, 211).

[87]. 631C cited by Ruskin, Mun. Pul., III, 88 (Vol. XVII, 210).

[88]. 661A, 661B; Rep. 331A-B.

[89]. Laws 661B; Hipp. Maj. 290D; Menex. 246E.

[90]. Mun. Pul., II, 35 ff.; he refers to both Xenophon and Plato as being right on this point. Cf. Fors. Clav., I, 8 (Vol. XXVII, 122); Unto This Last, 64 (Vol. XVII, 89).

[91]. Rep. 550D, 373D: ἐὰν καὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἀφῶσιν αὑτοὺς ἐπὶ χρημάτων κτῆσιν ἄπειρον ὑπερβάντες τὸν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ὄρον. On ἄπειρος cf. infra under Aristotle. Cf. Dobbs, op. cit., pp. 202 f. and note, on the evil results of excessive wealth and poverty in the Greece of that age. Like Ruskin, Mun. Pul., VI, 153 and note (Vol. XVII, 277), who cites Laws 736E; Aratra Pentelici, IV, 138 (Vol. XX, 295 f.) on money as the root of all evil, citing Laws 705B.

[92]. Laws 729A.

[93]. 742D.

[94]. Rep. 421D.