[554a]
“Let us see, then, whether he will have a like
character.” “Let us see.”“Would he not, in the first place, resemble it in
prizing wealth above everything?”
“Inevitably.” “And also by being thrifty and
laborious, satisfying only his own necessary1 appetites and desires and not
providing for expenditure on other things, but subduing his other appetites
as vain and unprofitable?” “By all means.”
“He would be a squalid2 fellow,” said I, “looking for a surplus of
profit3 in everything,
1 Cf. on 558 D, p. 291, note i.
3 For περιουσίαν cf. Blaydes on Aristoph.Clouds 50 and Theaet. 154 E.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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