Liturgies
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liturgies · public services
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Against Aphobus III
The Athenian institution of liturgies, wealthy citizens' obligation to fund public services, cited as proof of the witnesses' financial standing.
Furthermore, no one could say that poverty was the ground, for they all possess means so ample that they willingly assume the expense of public services, and discharge whatever duties are laid upon them.
On the Peace
Public-service financial duties imposed on wealthier Athenians.
For some are driven to rehearse and bewail amongst themselves their poverty and privation while others deplore the multitude of duties enjoined upon them by the state—the liturgies and all the nuisances connected with the symmories and with exchanges of property;