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.
Perhaps as a common informer, to get money out of you?
Do not, men of Athens, give way to these motives today.
and then these men divided that money also among themselves.