Note 5 — A. Interpretation of Money.
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Cf. for instance, Plato, Laws, ch. XI, and Aristotle’s Politics, bk. I, ch. 9; Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, bk. V, ch. 5.—Roman authors defined money as a “just medium and measure of commutable things” Moneta est justum medium, et mensura rerum commutabilium, quoted in H. C. Black, Dictionary of Law, p. 785. [1891].