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    On Revenues
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    On Revenues

    By Xenophon

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On Revenues" by Xenophon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN8596547211099
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    Xenophon

    Xenophon of Athens was an ancient Greek historian, philosopher, and soldier. He became commander of the Ten Thousand at about age thirty. Noted military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge said of him, “The centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior.”  

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      On Revenues - Xenophon

      Xenophon

      On Revenues

      EAN 8596547211099

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      Translation by H. G. Dakyns

      WAYS AND MEANS

      A Pamphlet On Revenues

      Translation by H. G. Dakyns

      Table of Contents

      Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a

      pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,

      and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land

      and property in Scillus, where he lived for many

      years before having to move once more, to settle

      in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.

      Revenues describes Xenophon's ideas to solve the

      problem of poverty in Athens, and thus remove an

      excuse to mistreat the Athenian allies.

      PREPARER'S NOTE

      This was typed from Dakyns' series, The Works of Xenophon, a

      four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though

      there is doubt about some of these) is:

      Work Number of books

      The Anabasis 7

      The Hellenica 7

      The Cyropaedia 8

      The Memorabilia 4

      The Symposium 1

      The Economist 1

      On Horsemanship 1

      The Sportsman 1

      The Cavalry General 1

      The Apology 1

      On Revenues 1

      The Hiero 1

      The Agesilaus 1

      The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2

      Text in brackets {} is my transliteration of Greek text into

      English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The

      diacritical marks have been lost.

      WAYS AND MEANS

      Table of Contents

      A Pamphlet On Revenues

      Table of Contents

      I

      For myself I hold to the opinion that the qualities of the leading statesmen in a state, whatever they be, are reproduced in the character of the constitution itself. (1)

      (1) Like minister, like government. For the same idea more fully

      expressed, see Cyrop. VIII. i. 8; viii. 5.

      As, however, it has been maintained by certain leading statesmen in Athens that the recognised standard of right and wrong is as high at Athens as elsewhere, but that, owing to the pressure of poverty on the masses, a certain measure of injustice in their dealing with the allied states (2) could not be avoided; I set myself to discover whether by any manner of means it were possible for the citizens of Athens to be supported solely from the soil of Attica itself, which was obviously the most equitable solution. For if so, herein lay, as I believed, the antidote at once to their own poverty and to the feeling of suspicion with which they are regarded by the rest of Hellas.

      (2) Lit. the cities, i.e. of the alliance, {tas summakhidas}.

      I had no sooner begun my investigation than one fact presented itself clearly to my mind, which is that the country itself is made by nature to provide the amplest resources. And with a view to establishing the truth

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