1 The word naturally denotes industry, but the clause might possibly be rendered “because he did not wish capital to lie idle”; so Dareste. In Dem. 45.33, Apollodorus implies that the debt was due to mismanagement on the part of Phormio.
2 As eleven talents of this money belonged to the bank, this phrase is open to question.
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