
Reading Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, I found the following passge, which is laden with the language of accounting:
Again, lovers weigh up profit and loss accruing to their account by reason of their passion, and with the extra item of labor expended decide that they have long since made full payment for favors received, whereas the nonlovers cannot allege any consequential neglect of their personal affairs, nor record any past exertions on the debit side… (Plato, 236).
Is it possible that the Greeks had already invented such system?
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