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    The Atlas·Objects

    Money

    object · 7 works · 9 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    money · a common measure · balance · coin · customary currency · gold · income · loan · minae · nomisma

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    The conventional standard or medium that renders otherwise incommensurable goods and services comparable for exchange.

    Now money serves us as a guarantee of exchange in the future:
    chapter 5
    It is to meet this requirement that men have introduced money;
    chapter 5
    for such a standard makes all things commensurable, since all things can be measured by money.
    chapter 5

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Money is a medium and measure of wealth, income, salary, sale, taxes, and profit, but it is wealth only when used knowledgeably.

    Yours, I feel sure, would fetch more than a hundred times that sum.
    chapter 2
    You imply, Socrates, that even money isn’t wealth to one who doesn’t know how to use it.
    chapter 1
    And in spite of that estimate, you really think you have no need of money and pity me for my poverty?
    chapter 2

    The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)Renaissance · English

    Medium of exchange described as a civic institution invented to facilitate trade.

    and in order that trade might be carried on more easily, somewhat later they invented money, which, as the derivation of the word shows, is a civic institution.
    chapter 26

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    Coined precious metal serving as the standard measure of value in exchange

    So money sent to sea by way of venture is something compounded of a contract, of a loan, and of an insurance.
    chapter 18
    As, for instance, a person gives his labour for money, which in the daily transactions of life is called hire or wages:
    chapter 18
    As to money, it may be observed that its uses do not result from any value intrinsically belonging to the precious metals, or to the specific denomination and shape of coin, but from the general application which can be made of it, as a standard of payment for all commodities.
    chapter 18

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Financial resource used to hire troops, buy alliances, sustain sieges, and influence decisions.

    Meanwhile he directed the Orchomenians to cease from war so long as his campaign lasted;
    chapter 5
    he also gave over to Sphodrias all the money which he chanced to have brought from home and directed him to hire a force of mercenaries besides.
    chapter 5
    They persuaded Sphodrias, the Lacedaemonian governor at Thespiae, — by giving him money, it was suspected, — to invade Attica, that so he might involve the Athenians in war with the Lacedaemonians.
    chapter 5

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Money, specifically payment for teaching or companionship, which Socrates consistently refuses to accept, provoking repeated criticism and debate with Antiphon.

    In another conversation with Socrates Antiphon said:
    chapter 1
    Socrates, I supposed that philosophy must add to one’s store of happiness.
    chapter 1
    Clearly, then, if you set any value on your society, you would insist on getting the proper price for that too.
    chapter 35

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    Material wealth that appears as gift, debt, Homeric treasure, loan, and corrupting influence.

    Why, by giving them money.
    chapter 4
    You may hear me first, said Callias.
    chapter 4
    Well, do they substitute thanks for money payment?
    chapter 4