The Economist of Xenophon Author:Xenophon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chap. II. OF RICHES. CHAPTER II. OF TRUE WEALTH : — NOT THAT WHICH BRINGS WITH IT TROUBLE AND TOIL, BUT THAT OF THE PROVIDENT AND THRIFTY ECONOMIST : — WHE... more »RE SUCH IS TO BE LEARNED. RITOBULUS then continued something in i this way : What you have told me about such as these is, I think, quite sufficient ; but on examining myself, I find that I have what I consider a fair control over them, so that if you would advise me how to increase my position, I do not think you would find that these mistresses, as you call them, prevent me from following your advice. With all assurance, then, give me what good advice you can. Or do you charge us, Socrates, with being rich enough, and consider that we have no need of further wealth ? Gk. £yKpem)s, on the full meaning of which, see Aristotle, (Eth. vii. 9, 6,): — '4 re yip (yKparfa ofos /aiStv irapA. rbv 6yov SiA ras irwjiiaTiKds rjSopas Trotev /cal 6 ffuippwv, dX 6 fitv xwtf $' Ok fwv ai;as andri uju/ay, Kal o p£v roioDros otoy fj.rj TJSeffdat irapd. riv 6yov, o $' ofos ijSeffBai andi /it] AyetrBai,' i.e., the perfectly temperate man does not even feel pleasure in acting contrary to right reason ; the self-controlled feels it, but is not led astray. 2 If it is of me that you are speaking, said Socrates, I do not think that I have any need of further wealth : I am rich enough. You, on the contrary, Critobulus, I consider very poor, —and, by Heaven, I heartily pity you sometimes. 3 To this Critobulus answered with a laugh : By Heaven, Socrates, said he, how much, think you, would your property fetch, and how much mine ? I think, said Socrates, that if I found a good purchaser, I might quite easily get for my house and all five minae. But I am perfectly sure that yours would fetch more than a hundred times as much as ...« less