Note 125 — Chapter I · Introduction

Plato, Rep. II. 371e. So Cic. de Off. I. 42, “est ipsa merces auctoramentum seruitutis.” Cp. Zimmern, Sociological Review, 1909, p. 174, who however, when he says that “the Greeks never took kindly to wage earning” is thinking mainly of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and rather disregarding the evidence for conditions at that period being of comparatively recent growth.