Note 45 — Chapter II · ECONOMIC IDEAS BEFORE PLATO, AND REASONS FOR THE UNDEVELOPED CHARACTER OF GREEK ECONOMICS
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Diog. L. ix. 55: δίκη ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ. Cf. Diels, op. cit., II, 220, 231; Croiset, Hist. de la Litt. Gr., IV, 54. Souchon (op. cit., p. 23, n. 1) thinks that it may have taught the dignity of all labor. Cf. also Plato (Sophist 232 D): τὰ πρωταγόρεια ... περί τε πάλης καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνῶν. Gomperz (Die Apologie der Heilkunst, p. 33) infers that Protagoras had published a Gesammtapologie der Künste. Cf. Pol. 299C, and Diog. L. ix. 8. 55.