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The other class again who are Stingy in respect of receiving

exceed in that they receive anything from any source; such as

they who work at illiberal employments, brothel keepers, and

such-like, and usurers who lend small sums at large interest: for

all these receive from improper sources, and improper amounts.

Their common characteristic is base-gaining, since they all

submit to disgrace for the sake of gain and that small; because

those who receive great things neither whence they ought, nor

what they ought (as for instance despots who sack cities and

plunder temples), we denominate wicked, impious, and unjust, but

not Stingy.

Now the dicer and bath-plunderer and the robber belong to the

class of the Stingy, for they are given to base gain: both busy

themselves and submit to disgrace for the sake of gain, and the

one class incur the greatest dangers for the sake of their booty,

while the others make gain of their friends to whom they ought to

be giving.