Nomisma (
Greek: νόμισμα) was the ancient Greek word for "money" and is derived from nomos (νόμος) meaning "'anything assigned,' 'a usage,' 'custom,' 'law,' 'ordinance,' or 'that which is a habitual practice.'"[1]
...but money has become by convention a sort of representative of demand; and this is why it has the name 'money' (nomisma) – because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it and make it useless.
Ancient Greek-NOMISMA: "money", The King James Version (KJV) New Testament Greek Lexicon; Strong's Number:3546
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Aristotle, NICOMACHEAN ETHICS [1133b 1], translations: a) Thomas Taylor
[2]; b) Sir (William) David Ross KBE
[3]; c) Harris Rackham
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History,BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS. CHAP. 1. (1.)--THE ORES OF BRASS., Editions and translations: English (ed.
John Bostock and
Henry Thomas Riley| Latin (ed. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff)
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