Note 1434 — Chapter X · (a) Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle, (b) the Money Power of the Rulers of Pergamum, (c) Protogenes of Olbia
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Diod. XV. 7; Plut. Dio, 5; Diog. Laert. III. 1. 14 (19). The story may be a fiction (Burnet, Thales to Plato, p. 211), but if so it is probably based on the fact of a quarrel between the tyrant and the philosopher.