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Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 7.4 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.4 11.11 – 11.2 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 12.5 – 12.6 13.1 – 13.2 13.3 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.5 14.6 – 15.2 15.2 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.6 15.7 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 17.1 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.5 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 23.1 – 23.3 23.4 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.3 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 25.4 25.5 – 26.2 26.3 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.3 27.4 – 27.5 27.6 – 27.7 28.1 – 28.3 28.4 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.4

İngilizce Yunanca

2.3 However, in another place he says:— Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish. Justice, even if slow, is sure. Fragment 13. 7-8 (Bergk) And there is no reason why a good statesman should either set his heart too much on the acquisition of superfluous wealth, or despise unduly the use of what is necessary and convenient. In those earlier times, to use the words of Hesiod, Hes. WD 311 work was no disgrace, nor did a trade bring with it social inferiority, and the calling of a merchant was actually held in honor, since it gave him familiarity with foreign parts, friendships with foreign kings, and a large experience in affairs.

2.4 Some merchants were actually founders of great cities, as Protis, who was beloved by the Gauls along the Rhone, was of Marseilles. Thales is said to have engaged in trade, as well as Hippocrates the mathematician; and Plato defrayed the expenses of his sojourn in Egypt by the sale of oil.

3.1 Accordingly it Solon’s way of living was expensive and profuse and if in his poems, he speaks of pleasure with more freedom than becomes a philosopher, this is thought to be due to his mercantile life; he encountered manly and great dangers, and sought his reward therefor in sundry luxuries and enjoyments.