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Aristophanes, Plutus (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.), line 489 (search)
rn, cut up leather, bake bricks, bleach linen, tan hides, or break up the soil of the earth with the plough and garner the gifts of Demeter, if he could live in idleness and free from all this work? Chremylus What nonsense all this is! All these trades which you just mention will be plied by our slaves. Poverty Your slaves! And by what means will these slaves be got? Chremylus We will buy them. Poverty But first say, who will sell them, if everyone is rich? Chremylus Some greedy dealer from Thessaly —the land which supplies so many. Poverty But if your system is applied, there won't be a single slave-dealer left. What rich man would risk his life to devote himself to this traffic? You will have to toil, to dig and submit yourself to all kinds of hard labour; so that your life would be more wretched even than it is now. Chremylus May this prediction fall upon yourself! Poverty You will not be able to sleep in a bed, for no more will ever be manufactured; nor no carpets, for who would w