Revenues

Revenues (Gk. Poroi ē peri prosodōn, Lat. De vectigalibus), one of the minor works of Xenophon, written not before 355 BC and probably his last work. The ascription to him has been doubted.

Xenophon discusses various means of increasing the revenue of Athens, notably by encouraging the resident aliens (metics), who were engaged in manufacturing and trade generally, and by making ingenious suggestions such as for investment in accommodation that could be rented to visitors, and in slaves to be hired out to operators of the Laurium silver-mines (a transaction from which the author expected a return of 33 per cent on the capital expended). See also ISOCRATES 5.