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.
Again, the law directs that the trierarchs be subject to audit, though they have had no public funds in their hands, and though they are not men who filch large sums from your treasury and pay out small ones, and not men who claim to be making donations when they are only paying back what is your own, but men who are acknowledged by all to have spent their family fortunes in their ambition to serve you.
For great numbers of those who were subject to audit, though they were caught in the very act of stealing the public funds, went out from the court-room acquitted.
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.
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.
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.
On the Chersonese
The civic financial resources, taxes, contributions, and allowances needed to sustain defense.
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.
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.
You must first levy a force and provide for its maintenance, and appoint paymasters and clerks, and arrange that there shall be the strictest watch kept over your expenditure, and afterwards you must demand from your paymasters an account of their moneys, and from the general an account of his campaign.
Third Olynthiac
The civic resources that should be redirected toward military service and orderly public duties.
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.
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?
On the Peace
Financial levies imposed for war, used as an example of burdens peace would end.
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 …
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.