“Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.”

— Aristophanés , Plutus

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+230
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Plutus (388 BC)

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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

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Epp. Apoll. 35
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Book I, 1258b.4
Politics
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Source: Elegies, Line 149-150

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