Public services
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: public services the event
public services · state services · advance contributions · chorus-master · equipment of war-galleys · regularly recurring services · service to the state
in the texts
Against Leptines
Civic financial and performance obligations, including liturgies and war-galley equipment.
Perhaps he will tell you of the war-galleys he has equipped and of his other public services.
You hear the copy of the inscription, men of Athens, ordering them to be immune, save from religious duties.
But if immunity from religious duties were the same as immunity from public services, what was the object of that clause?
Against Phaenippus
Civic financial and personal services owed by wealthy citizens.
Do you, therefore, show that you have expended one single copper coin on the state—you, who have inherited two estates which performed public services.
For it is the duty of honest jurymen to give respite to those citizens, when they have need of such help, who, when prosperous, willingly perform public services and remain in the list of the Three Hundred;
do you also take your turn and share for a little while in the class that performs public services, since those engaged in mining have suffered reverses while you farmers are prospering beyond what is your due.