“avaritia,” which is “to desire the things of others, and having acquired them to impart them to none” (c. 4), and of “filthy lucre” (c. 5), of which an instance is given in the buying at harvest or vintage time, not of necessity, but for covetousness, in order to sell at a higher price; “but if a man buy for necessity, that he may have for himself and distribute to others, we call it trade” (c. 7). The Ecclesiastical Capitulary of Aix-la-Chapelle in 809 again enjoins priests to avoid all avarice
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