It is the same principle, if I mistake not, which operates imperceptibly with respect to quantity and number. Another’s property indented into my field gives me uneasiness; and I am eager to make the purchase, not for profit, but in order to square my field. Xerxes and his army in their passage to Greece were sumptuously entertained by Pythius the Lydian. Xerxes getting a particular account of his riches, recompensed him with 7000 Darics, which he wanted to complete the sum of four millions.
[83] Aristotle, poet. cap. 17.
[84] Spectator, Nº 265.
[85] Lib. 1. § 28.
[86] Act 4. sc. 2.
[87] See chap. 2. part 4.
[88] Chap. 2. part 4.
[89] Æn. lib. 5.
[90] Iliad, book 23. l. 879.
[91] Chap. 1.