A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

[195]. 742C, 915D-E; Rep. 556A-B; Laws 850A.

[196]. 921C, an obol per month.

[197]. Rep. 555E.

[198]. Fors. Clav., notes to Letter 43, 14 (Vol. XXVIII, 121 f.), notes to Letter 81, 16 (Vol. XXIX, 212), where he refers to Plato and Aristotle; Mun. Pul., IV, 98, note (Vol. XVII, 220), where he absolutely condemns it; On the Old Road, Vol. XXXIV, 425, on usury, ends with a citation from the Laws 913C; ἃ μὴ κατέθου, μὴ ἀνέλη.

[199]. E.g. J. Scott Nearing’s recent book on Income.

[200]. Laws 679B, 831C; Rep. 545B ff., 548B. Cf. Ruskin on the evils arising from money, Vol. XX, 295 f.

[201]. Laws 743D, 742A-B, 801B.

[202]. 742A.

[203]. Ruskin, Mun. Pul., I, 25. He thinks it is a relic of a barbarism that will disappear as civilization develops.

[204]. Laws 742A-B.