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355 BC (search for this): text Ways, chapter 4
e gravest fear in everyone's mind is that the works may become overcrowded if the state acquires too many slaves. But we can rid ourselves of that fear by not putting more men in year by year than the works themselves require. Accordingly I hold that this, which is the easiest way, is also the best way of doing these things. On the other hand, if you think that the burdens imposed during the late warThe allusion is to the “War of the Allies” who had revolted from Athens. It lasted from 357 to 355 B.C. See Introduction. make it impossible for you to contribute anything at all—well, keep down the cost of administration during the next year to the amount that the taxes yielded before the peace; and invest the balances over and above that amount, which you will get with peace, with considerate treatment of resident aliens and merchants, with the growth of imports and exports due to concentration of a larger population, and with the expansion of harbour and market dues, so that the investm<
413 BC (search for this): text Ways, chapter 4
obol a day, the annual revenue derived from that number of men is sixty talents. Out of this sum, if twenty talents are invested in additional slaves, the state will have forty talents available for any other necessary purpose. And when a total of ten thousand men is reached, the revenue will be a hundred talents. But the state will receive far more than that, as anyone will testify who is old enough to remember how much the charge for slave labour brought in before the trouble at Decelea.In 413 B.C., when great numbers of slaves deserted, and labour in the mines dwindled. And there is another proof. During the history of the mines an infinite number of men has worked in them; and yet the condition of the mines to-day is exactly the same as it was in the time of our ancestors, and their memory ran not to the contrary. And present conditions all lead to the conclusion that the number of slaves employed there can never be greater than the works need. For the miners find no limit to sha