Then what is that joint use of silver or gold in which the just man is to be preferred?
especially in the safe-keeping of deposits. When you want a deposit to be kept safely.
You mean when money is not wanted, but allowed to lie? 9
Precisely.
But not in the use of money: and if so, justice is only useful when money or anything else is useless. That is to say, justice is useful when money is useless?
[D]That is the inference.
And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to the state; but when you want to use it, then the art of the vine-dresser?
Clearly.
And when you want to keep a shield or a lyre, and not to use them, you would say that justice is useful; but when you want to use them, then the art of the soldier or of the musician?
Certainly.