“Emporakos” is a word in greek that describes a small merchant, a type of person who is active in the field of buying and selling. He buys and sells, and from this activity he earns his livelihood, but also gains capital and gold for the person who gave him not only the first capital for his business, but supported him in all his activities as well.
The good person who gave him his first venture capital does not control him daily, because he is long-suffering, knows how to wait, does not expect to see the result on the evening of the first appearance of the merchant in the market, but to realize how successful will the future be. In the end, if the merchant is clever and hard-working he will increase the capital that his master has lent to him.
But if the merchant who took the capital was wasting it into everyday nonsense, he would have nothing to give as interest to his master, but he is even in danger of starvation for lack of his daily food. The death of the merchant who did not honor the capital that the good gentleman entrusted him is absolutely certain, even if his shop was in St. Mark’s Square of the prosperous Venice.