The harvest of novels is, I fear, a sign of the approaching exhaustion of the soil.
[187] See chapter i.
[188] Instead of Periander of Corinth, is (by Plato, and therefore) more popularly, but less justly, ranked Myson of Chene.
[189] Attributed also to Thales; Stob.

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[190] Aristotle relates (Pol., lib.

i.) a singular anecdote of the means whereby this philosopher acquired wealth.

His skill in meteorology made him foresee that there would be one season an extraordinary crop of olives.

He hired during the previous winter all the oil-presses in Chios and Miletus, employing his scanty fortune in advances to the several proprietors.