Investments in consols and railway shares were not open to them.
Money they used to lend at usury, no doubt, but with a great chance of losing it.

The Greek colonists were industrious, were covetous, and prudent.

From this it had come to pass that, as they made their way about the world--to the cities which they established round the Mediterranean--they collected in their new homes great store of ornamental wealth.

This was done with much profusion at Syracuse, a Greek city in Sicily, and spread from them over the whole island.

The temples of the gods were filled with the works of the great Greek artists, and every man of note had his gallery.