[…] though he could not in money and riches come to be like vnto other kinges (bicauſe the ſlaues and factors onely of the kinges Seleucus and Ptolomy, had more money then all the kings of Sparta had together that euer raigned) […]
1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, page 851