Bribery
idea · 4 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
bribe · bribery · bribes · hire · rewards · bribe-taking · corrupts anyone by promises · filthy lucre · money · offered fifty drachmas
in the texts
On the False Embassy
The corrupt acceptance of rewards for acts harmful to Athens.
and finally that for all these delinquencies he, as well as Philocrates, accepted presents and rewards;
And until after our return from the first embassy I at least, men of Athens, had no suspicion that he was corrupt and had already sold himself.
he forbade the acceptance of rewards absolutely, holding, as I suppose, that the man who takes them and is thereby corrupted can no longer be trusted by the state as a judge of sound policy.
On the Embassy
The charge of accepting bribes from Philip, the central accusation against Aeschines and the other ambassadors that structures the whole defense speech.
But the man who had not one member of his body left unsold, posing as a second Aristeides the Just, is displeased, and spits on us, as takers of bribes.
And he has accused me of receiving bribes—he who would be the last man to make such suspicion credible!
Against Meidias
The corrupt offering of money or promises to distort legal outcomes.
Learning this, Meidias, who is now being brought to trial by Demosthenes, for whom we appear, offered us small sums of money to let Aristarchus go unharmed, and to substitute the name of Demosthenes in the indictment for murder.
Judgement having gone by default against Meidias, we know that Meidias tried to induce Strato, the arbitrator, and us, who were at that time Archons, to reverse the judgement against him, and he offered us fifty drachmas, and, when we resented his offer, he threatened us and so departed.
Well, at first he had the impudence to try and persuade Strato to report a judgement for the defendant instead of one for the plaintiff, and he wanted the Archons to alter the record and offered them fifty drachmas.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Illicit payment for performing a task or informing, distinguished from legitimate reward and subject to heavy fines when taken by an appointee.
He who, though not appointed, receives a bribe for a task, for the purpose of a rendered service, there is no fault in him.
He who is appointed to a task, if he receives a bribe, shall be made to pay that entire amount and a fine of eleven times more.
A bribe that is promised for the accomplishment of a task should not be given under any circumstances, even if that task is accomplished.