[3]
Thus they called harlots
‘companions,’ taxes
‘contributions,’ the garrison of a city its
‘guard,’ and the prison a
‘chamber.’ But Solon was the first, it would seem, to use this device, when he called his cancelling of debts a
‘disburdenment.’ For the first of his public measures was an enactment that existing debts should be remitted, and that in future no one should lend money on the person of a borrower.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.