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    Bribery and corruption

    idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    bribes · corruption · bribery · bribe-taking · bribed · earning his pay · gain · gold · greed · jobbery

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    1 expression

    Corruption and bribery2 mentions

    Fourth Philippic (Greek) · Third Philippic (Greek)

    It is the selling of your interests at every opportunity;
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    in the texts

    On the ChoreutesClassical · Greek

    The idea of financial corruption among public officials and litigants, embodied in the accusers' alleged acceptance of a bribe to prosecute the defendant.

    As it is, they themselves, those who struck the bargain with them, and the parties with whom the money was deposited are paying the price of their misdeeds;
    on the choreutes
    What accusation would they hesitate to bring, what court would they hesitate to mislead, what oaths would they feel any compunction in breaking, after taking thirty minae, as they have, from the Poristae, the Poletae, the Practores, and the clerks attached to them, to bring me into court, after driving me from the Council-chamber, and after swearing oaths so solemn, all because during my Prytany I …
    on the choreutes

    Against TimocratesClassical · Greek

    Corrupt profit-seeking in political and judicial contexts.

    —Ah, but he was a good manager for his sister.
    against timocrates
    You can offer no excuse for daring to introduce such a measure, except that cursed greediness of yours.
    against timocrates
    a toad-eater who drafts decrees and does political jobs for hire,—now that you have caught him, will you not make an end of him?
    against timocrates

    Fourth PhilippicClassical · Greek

    The sale of public interests and pro-Philip advocacy for private gain.

    It is the selling of your interests at every opportunity;
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    It is not that you do not recognize these speakers, for as soon as you have seen them, you know exactly who is speaking for pay and acting as Philip’s agent, and who is sincerely defending your best interests;
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    Because yours is the one city in the world where immunity is granted to plead on behalf of our enemies, and where a man who has been bribed can safely address you in person, even when you have been robbed of your own.
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    On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

    The exchange of money or benefits for political betrayal, treated as the root of civic danger.

    And of bearing false witness against allies, and of taking bribes.
    on the false embassy
    such madness, men of Athens, such obliquity, does corruption engender!
    on the false embassy
    By the terms of this decree, men of Athens, you condemned to death the ambassadors named.
    on the false embassy

    Third PhilippicClassical · Greek

    The buying of political advantage by foreign money and the civic vice that enables Philip.

    and every other vice that goes hand in hand with corruption.
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    because he conveyed the gold of the Medes to the Peloponnese.
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    This simply means that anyone slaying a member of Arthmius’s family would be free from blood-guilt.
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