[60] Nem., VI., sub. in.
[61] Prom., 518.
[62] Phoenissae, 536-47. There is a delicious parody of this method in the Clouds. A creditor asks Strepsiades, who has been taking lessons in philosophy, to pay him the interest on a loan. Strepsiades begs to know whether the sea is any fuller now than it used to be. ‘No,’ replies the other, ‘for it would not be just,’ (οὐ γὰρ δίκαιον πλείον εἶναι). ‘Then, you wretch,’ rejoins his debtor, ‘do you suppose that the sea is not to get any fuller although all the rivers are flowing into it, and that your money is to go on increasing?’ (1290-95.)
[63] Xenophon, Memor., IV., iv., 19.
[64] Pol., I., ii.
[65] The Hippias Minor.
[66] Diog. L., IX., viii., 54.
[67] Diog. L., IX., viii., 51.
[68] Plato, Protagoras, 327; Jowett’s Transl., vol. I., p. 140. On the superior morality which accompanies advancing civilisation, as evinced by the great increase of mutual trust, see Maine’s Ancient Law, pp. 306-7.
[69] This point is noticed by Zeller, Ph. d. Gr., II., 22.