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    On Revenues
    On Revenues
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    On Revenues

    By Henry Graham Dakyns and Xenophon

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    Release dateSep 1, 1999
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      Xenophon's solution to poverty in Athens was to recruit a legion of public slaves and send them down the local silver mines. Ingenious.

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    On Revenues - Henry Graham Dakyns

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    Title: On Revenues

    Author: Xenophon

    Translator: H. G. Dakyns

    Release Date: August 27, 2008 [EBook #1179]

    Last Updated: January 15, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON REVENUES ***

    Produced by John Bickers, and David Widger

    ON REVENUES

    By Xenophon

    Translation by H. G. Dakyns

            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

    A Pamphlet On Revenues

    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 of this initial proposition I will describe the physical features of Attica.

    In the first place, the extraordinary mildness of the climate is proved by the actual products of the soil. Numerous plants which in many parts of the world appear as stunted leafless growths are here fruit-bearing. And as with the soil so with the sea indenting our coasts, the varied productivity of which is exceptionally great. Again with regard to those kindly fruits of earth (3) which Providence bestows on man season by season, one and all they commence earlier

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