In 1816, a freely translated version of Molière's "The Miser" was published in Vienna, "in the language spoken by us". The anonymous publisher was Konstantinos Oikonomos, a Thessalian scholar and cleric who was then a teacher in Smyrna, where the action of the work also takes place.

This attempt at adaptation to the morals of the pre-revolutionary society, "The Sixty-Three", which is a renaming of the main character that eventually gained the value of a title, emerged from the amalgamation of a rich temperament with the liberalism of Korais. The miser ceased to be just a tyrant on a family scale. He became an enemy of enlightenment, a foe of the good of the state.

This liberal spirit, along with the linguistic vitality and the effective use of idiomatic speech, may explain the popularity that the text gained. The transformative power and the satirical precision of Oikonomos gave "The Sixty-Three" some of the privileges of originality. And the public's response showed that it was not usurped.