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Often appears with: crime and punishment · corruption, patronage, and bribery · perjury · terentia · seal for pudentilla · satire of mendicant clergy · rufinus and calpurnianus · refusal of money · public storytelling competition · money, coin, and credit · gaius caesar · friar versus summoner
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“If he meant to tempt me, he ought to have tried to do so by offering his entire kingdom.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits · wit
Cicero supports prosecutions with testimony against Clodius while Terentia’s motives and personal grudges are implicated, after which Clodius’s faction uses bribery and power to pursue Cicero’s downfall.
and having been told by someone that Vatinius was dead, on hearing presently after that he was alive, "May the rascal perish," said he, "for his news not being true." Upon Caesar's bringing forward a law for the division of the lands in Campania amongst the soldiers, many in the senate opposed it; amongst the rest, Lucius Gellius, one of the oldest men in the house, said it should never pass whilst he lived. "Let us…
In the Friar’s Tale prologue, a limitour and a friar trade insults and then the Host orders the friar’s satire on a Sompnour, portrayed as corrupt and murderous in pursuit of bribes.
“Peter; so be the women of the stives,”* *stews Quoth this Sompnour, “y-put out of our cure.”* *care “Peace, with mischance and with misaventure,” Our Hoste said, “and let him tell his tale. Now telle forth, and let the Sompnour gale,* *whistle; bawl Nor spare not, mine owen master dear.” This false thief, the Sompnour (quoth the Frere), Had always bawdes ready to his hand, As any hawk to lure in Engle…
He explains that he knew the bribery-and-perjury plot already, says Crassus’s evidence was contracted at Rufinus’s house, and then introduces a new charge: a magic seal made for Pudentilla’s letters.
[Footnote 19: *ructus popinam* (Pricaeus).] 60. We all knew of this before it actually took place. I might have prevented the transaction by denouncing it, but I knew that so foolish a lie would be prejudicial to Aemilianus, who wasted his money to secure it, rather than to myself, who treated it with the contempt it deserved. I wished not only that Aemilianus should lose his money, but that Crassus should have his …
He recounts that Gaius Caesar offered Demetrius 200,000 sesterces and he refused, then adds Caesar’s remark that if he tried to tempt him, he should have offered his entire kingdom.
that he could be influenced by such a bribe, he said, "If he meant to tempt me, he ought to have tried to do so by offering his entire kingdom." XII. It is possible, then, to give something to the wise man, although all things belong to the wise man. Similarly, though we declare that friends have all things in common, it is nevertheless possible to give something to a friend: for I have not everything in common with…