[205]. Sophist. 223C-D; cf. Pol., 289E for the triple division of commercials, κάπηλοι, ἔμποροι, and ἀργυραμοίβοι; cf. Phaedo, 69A for a figurative use of ἀλλαγή.
[206]. Rep. 370A-E, home; 370E-371E, foreign; cf. Adam Smith’s idea above.
[207]. 370E-371A; Cornford (op. cit., p. 66) wrongly asserts that Plato did not know the law that exports must balance imports. Cf. op. cit., p. 37.
[208]. Boeckh, Die Staataushaltung der Athener, I, pp. 382 ff.; Zimmern, op. cit., 1st ed., p. 317. But cf. Brants, Xenophon Economiste, p. 18, n. 2 and references, on the protectionist tendency of the commercial policy of Athens.
[209]. Laws 847C; Souchon (op. cit., p. 102) sees in this a mercantile trend, but the purposes are entirely different.
[210]. 847B.
[211]. Rep. 371C-D.
[212]. Laws 918B-C.
[213]. Rep. 369C.
[214]. On the relation of exchange to production, cf. above, p. [28].