Public funds
object · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
public funds · contributions · war-taxes · a large sum of money · allowances · expenditure · funds · general treasury · hundred minas · military budget
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Public and private sums invoked in accusations about audits, donations, repairs, bribery, and settlement.
and he has received for this work from the general treasury nearly ten talents.
but I have made a present of a hundred minas to the state, and I have carried out the work on a larger scale than was prescribed;
Yes, but there is a man who has received no public funds and spent none, but has simply had something to do with administrative matters.
Exordia
Money and public funds, referenced as the resource whose provision for military preparation is under discussion and as a benchmark against which the value of good counsel is measured.
I believe, men of Athens, that in preference to a large sum of money you would choose the plan that will pay you in the matters you are now considering.
though we should all prove ourselves to be clever speakers, I know well that your interests would not be advanced in the slightest, but if just one speaker, no matter who, should come forward and be able to demonstrate convincingly what kind of preparation, and how great, and provided from what funds, would be to the State’s advantage, all our present apprehension is as good as dispelled.
On the Chersonese
The civic financial resources, taxes, contributions, and allowances needed to sustain defense.
we cannot keep our hands off the public funds;
As for the plunder of your wealth, they ought to prevent that by proposing some way of checking it and not by abandoning your interests.
Because, if you are not going to pay your contributions, nor serve in person, nor keep your hands off the public funds, nor grant Diopithes his allowances, nor sanction the sums that he raises for himself, nor consent to perform your own tasks, I have nothing to say.
Third Olynthiac
The civic resources that should be redirected toward military service and orderly public duties.
The former distribute the military funds as theatre-money among those who remain in the city;
But what if someone can leave our Theoric Fund untouched and name other sources for our military budget?
Not only that, men of Athens, but also the immediate adoption of a uniform system, so that each citizen, receiving his quota from the public funds, may fill his proper place in the service of the state.
On the Peace
Financial levies imposed for war, used as an example of burdens peace would end.
However, we have no memory for these facts but are always ready, without in the least advancing our own welfare, to man triremes, to levy war-taxes, and to lend aid to the campaigns of others or wage war against them, as chance may determine, as if imperilling the interests, not of our own, but of a foreign state.
But if we make peace and demean ourselves as our common covenants command us to do, then we shall dwell in our city in great security, delivered from wars and perils and the turmoil in which we are now involved amongst ourselves, and we shall advance day by day in prosperity, relieved of paying war-taxes, of fitting out triremes, and of discharging the other burdens which are imposed by war, witho …