[125]. Cf. pp. 19 f., and notes; cf. also p. 106, n. 1. The extensive commerce of Athens necessitated the presence of a comparatively large amount of money capital, and a large amount was also invested in slaves. For further notice, cf. infra, p. [68], nn. 8 ff., on the terms.
[126]. But cf. Laws 742C (κεφάλαιον), and infra, under Xenophon, on the terms for capital.
[127]. Cf. Rep. 552B, and p. 27. Kautz (op. cit., p. 119) overemphasizes this; cf. Souchon, op. cit., p. 91, n. 2, who observes, however, that Plato, by his insistence upon collectivism in landed property implies that “la terre est toujours un capital, et que la fortune mobilière ne l’est jamais.”
[128]. Cf. infra on money.
[129]. On the general attitude toward labor in Athens, cf. p. [30], n. 4. On Plato’s regard for the laborer, cf. infra, under distribution.
[130]. Rep. 590C, but only for him whose higher nature (τὸ τοῦ βελτίστου εἴδος) is naturally weak, though the implication is that this is characteristic of the artisans. Cf. Poehlmann, op. cit., II, 49 f.
[131]. Laws 842D, 806D-E, 741E, 846D, 919D.
[132]. 847A.
[133]. 743D.
[134]. Charm. 163A-C.