Note 1424 — Chapter X · (a) Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle, (b) the Money Power of the Rulers of Pergamum, (c) Protogenes of Olbia

Euboulos (the unnamed banker of Strabo XIII. 610; cp. Diog. Laert. V. I. 5 (3)) is quoted by Aristotle (Pol. II. 1267a) as demonstrating to a Persian satrap that it would not pay for him to besiege Atarneus, on which Boeckh observes that “the idea is worthy of a banker,” Kl. Schr. VI. p. 188. He seems to have been notoriously accessible to economic arguments. “Anyhow Kallisthenes in his Apophthegms says that the poet Persinos, being neglected by Euboulos of Atarneus went to Mitylene, and when Euboulos expressed surprise wrote to him that it was because he found it more pleasing exchanging in Mitylene than in Atarneus the Phocaean staters he had brought with him,” Poll. IX. 93.