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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.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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