Bribes
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
bribes · collective present · emolument · gold · hospitality · money · paltry profit
in the texts
Answer to Philip’s Letter
Payments alleged to corrupt Athenian orators into serving Philip.
certain mercenary orators here among us, men who are not ashamed to devote their lives to his service, thinking that they are carrying home his bribes, but blind to the fact that they are bartering all the interests of the State, and their own as well, for a paltry profit.
On the False Embassy
Payments and gifts alleged to have corrupted the envoys.
Mine was to seek out and rescue the captives, spending money of my own, and asking Philip to apply to their ransom the money he was spending on hospitable gifts for us.
it is not for me to name myself,—he conceived that a collective present might be accepted by all of us without misgiving;
that he has betrayed everything, sold everything, taken bribes, and stopped short of no iniquity.