But we must remember that this is not the proper use of the term; for the term “prodigal” ( ἄσωτος ) is intended to denote a man who has one vice, viz. that of wasting his substance: for he is ἄσωτος , 69 or “prodigal,” who is destroyed through his own fault, and the wasting of one’s substance is held to be a kind of destruction of one’s self, as one’s life is dependent upon it. This, then, we regard as the proper sense of the term “prodigality.”

Anything that has a use may be used well or ill.

Now, riches is abundance of useful things ( τὰ χρήσιμα ).

But each thing is best used by him who has the virtue that is concerned with that thing.