Lenders
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
lenders · creditors · money-lenders · money-lenders who lend at heavy interest · we who lent the money
in the texts
Against Lacritus
The creditors, including Androcles and Nausicrates, who made the maritime loan.
And they shall deliver to the lenders in their entirety the goods offered as security to be under their absolute control until such time as they shall themselves have paid the money due in accordance with the agreement.
and if the proceeds fall short of the sum which the lenders should receive in accordance with the agreement, it shall be lawful for the lenders, whether severally or jointly, to collect the amount by proceeding against Artemo and Apollodorus, and against all their property whether on land or sea, wheresoever it may be, precisely as if judgement had been rendered against them and they had defaulted in payment.
and we who had lent the money, when these men themselves returned from Pontus, had nothing which we could lay hold of or keep in possession until we should recover our money;
Against Pantaenetus
Lenders and creditors whose reputation and civic treatment are debated in the speech.
But if a man has done business as I have, going to sea on perilous journeys, and from his small profits has made these loans, wishing not only to confer favors, but to prevent his money from slipping through his fingers without his knowing it, why should one set him down in that class?
But you are so far from deserving pity, that more than any man in the world you should rightly be detested for the deeds you have wrought—you who, owing one hundred and five minae and not being able to satisfy your creditors, and then finding men who helped you to raise the money and enabled you to do what was right by those who originally made the loan, are seeking, quite apart from the wrongs yo …
I, for my part, do not regard a money-lender as a wrongdoer, although certain of the class may justly be detested by you, seeing that they make a trade of it, and have no thought of pity or of anything else, except gain.
Orations
Urban lenders who charge heavy interest, used as a point of comparison for the poor's standard of living
Well then, concerning the poor in the town and city we ought to consider their life and occupations — how, living and managing what kinds of things, they will be able not to live badly nor more meanly than the money-lenders who lend at heavy interest, knowing very well the number of days and months, and than those who own great tenement-houses and ships and many slaves;