Doles
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
doles · receipt of money · two obols
in the texts
On Organization
Public monetary distributions to citizens, criticized when detached from duty and organization.
I myself would neither propose such a distribution of the doles, nor oppose the right to receive them;
Yet these can never be worth more than two obols, but the other reforms, together with those that I proposed, are worth all the wealth of the Great King—that a city, so well provided with infantry, triremes, cavalry, and revenues, should be duly organized and equipped.
I may attack the officials who assign and distribute the public funds and may thus gain credit with those who regard this system as detrimental to the State, or I may approve and commend the right to receive these doles and so gratify those who are especially in need of them.
On the Peace
Public payments connected with civic institutions.
For, as if your other misfortunes were not enough, their chief desire is that you should be in want of your daily necessities, observing that those who are able to manage their affairs from their private incomes are on the side of the commonwealth and of our best counsellors, whereas those who live off the law-courts and the assemblies and the doles derived from them are constrained by their need …