1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 20.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • officers, military • officers,
Found in books: Schiffman (1983), Testimony and the Penal Code, 47; Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 133
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20.9 וְהָיָה כְּכַלֹּת הַשֹּׁטְרִים לְדַבֵּר אֶל־הָעָם וּפָקְדוּ שָׂרֵי צְבָאוֹת בְּרֹאשׁ הָעָם׃'' None | sup>
20.9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people.'' None |
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2. Hebrew Bible, 2 Kings, 3.19 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • army, Assyrian, officers • officium,
Found in books: Bay (2022), Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, 228; Gera (2014), Judith, 239
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3.19 וְהִכִּיתֶם כָּל־עִיר מִבְצָר וְכָל־עִיר מִבְחוֹר וְכָל־עֵץ טוֹב תַּפִּילוּ וְכָל־מַעְיְנֵי־מַיִם תִּסְתֹּמוּ וְכֹל הַחֶלְקָה הַטּוֹבָה תַּכְאִבוּ בָּאֲבָנִים׃'' None | sup>
3.19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’'' None |
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3. None, None, nan (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • office-holding • public office, officials
Found in books: Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 22; Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 63
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4. Polybius, Histories, 22.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • army, officer • imperial office
Found in books: Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 44; Stavrianopoulou (2013), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices and Images, 340
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22.8 1. \xa0After their withdrawal Apollonidas of Sicyon rose. He said that sum offered by Eumenes was a gift not unworthy of the Achaeans\' acceptance,,2. \xa0but that the intention of the giver and the purpose to which it was to be applied were as disgraceful and illegal as could be.,3. \xa0For, as it was forbidden by law for any private person or magistrate to receive gifts, on no matter what pretext, from a king, that all should be openly bribed by accepting this money was the most illegal thing conceivable, besides being confessedly the most disgraceful.,4. \xa0For that the parliament should be in Eumenes\' pay every year, and discuss public affairs after swallowing a bait, so to speak, would evidently involve disgrace and hurt.,5. \xa0Now it was Eumenes who was giving them money; next time it would be Prusias, and after that Seleucus.,6. \xa0"And," he said, "as the interests of democracies and kings are naturally opposed, and most debates and the most important deal with out differences with the kings,,7. \xa0it is evident that perforce one or the other thing will happen: either the interests of the kings will take precedence of our own; or, if this is not so, we shall appear to every one to be ungrateful in acting against our paymasters.",8. \xa0So he exhorted the Achaeans not only to refuse the gift, but to detest Eumenes for his purpose in offering it.,9. \xa0The next speaker was Cassander of Aegina, who reminded the Achaeans of the destitution which had overtaken the Aeginetans owing to their being members of the League at the time when Publius Sulpicius Galba had attacked Aegina with his fleet and sold into slavery all its unhappy inhabitants;,10. \xa0and how, as I\xa0have narrated in a previous book, the Aetolians gained possession of the town by their treaty with Rome, and handed it over to Attalus on receipt of thirty talents.,11. \xa0Laying this before the eyes of the Achaeans, he begged Eumenes not to fish for the good offices of the Achaeans by making advantageous offers, but by giving up the city of Aegina, to secure without a dissentient voice their complete devotion.,12. \xa0He exhorted the Achaeans at the same time not to accept a gift which would clearly involve their depriving the Aeginetans of all hope of deliverance in the future.,13. \xa0In consequence of these speeches the people were so deeply moved that not a soul ventured to take the part of the king, but all with loud shouts rejected the proffered gift, although owing to the greatness of the sum the temptation seemed almost irresistible. '' None |
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5. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • officium • polis offices, strategos
Found in books: Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 171; Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 245
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6. Clement of Rome, 1 Clement, 44.3-44.4 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Episcopal office • charismatic phenomena, and church office
Found in books: Esler (2000), The Early Christian World, 319; Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 240
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44.3 Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that there would be strife on account of the office of the episcopate. For this reason, therefore, inasmuch as they had obtained a perfect fore-knowledge of this, they appointed those ministers already mentioned, and afterwards gave instructions, that when these should fall asleep, other approved men should succeed them in their ministry. We are of opinion, therefore, that those appointed by them, or afterwards by other eminent men, with the consent of the whole church, and who have blamelessly served the flock of Christ, in a humble, peaceable, and disinterested spirit, and have for a long time possessed the good opinion of all, cannot be justly dismissed from the ministry. For our sin will not be small, if we eject from the episcopate those who have blamelessly and holily fulfilled its duties. Blessed are those presbyters who, having finished their course before now, have obtained a fruitful and perfect departure from this world; for they have no fear lest any one deprive them of the place now appointed them. But we see that you have removed some men of excellent behaviour from the ministry, which they fulfilled blamelessly and with honour. 44.4 Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that there would be strife on account of the office of the episcopate. For this reason, therefore, inasmuch as they had obtained a perfect fore-knowledge of this, they appointed those ministers already mentioned, and afterwards gave instructions, that when these should fall asleep, other approved men should succeed them in their ministry. We are of opinion, therefore, that those appointed by them, or afterwards by other eminent men, with the consent of the whole church, and who have blamelessly served the flock of Christ, in a humble, peaceable, and disinterested spirit, and have for a long time possessed the good opinion of all, cannot be justly dismissed from the ministry. For our sin will not be small, if we eject from the episcopate those who have blamelessly and holily fulfilled its duties. Blessed are those presbyters who, having finished their course before now, have obtained a fruitful and perfect departure from this world; for they have no fear lest any one deprive them of the place now appointed them. But we see that you have removed some men of excellent behaviour from the ministry, which they fulfilled blamelessly and with honour. '' None |
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7. New Testament, Acts, 13.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • offices (state), governor (provincial) • offices (state), proconsul • prophetic office
Found in books: DeJong (2022), A Prophet like Moses (Deut 18:15, 18): The Origin, History, and Influence of the Mosaic Prophetic Succession, 185; Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 228
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13.6 Διελθόντες δὲ ὅλην τὴν νῆσον ἄχρι Πάφου εὗρον ἄνδρα τινὰ μάγον ψευδοπροφήτην Ἰουδαῖον ᾧ ὄνομα Βαριησοῦς,'' None | sup>
13.6 When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus, '' None |
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8. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 6.19 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • office, office holder • campaigns for office
Found in books: Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 118; Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 101, 103, 118
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6.19 To Nepos. You know that the price of land, especially in the suburbs of Rome, has gone up. The cause of this sudden increase in value has been the theme of general discussion. At the last elections the senate passed the following wholesome resolutions; "That no candidates should provide public entertainments, send presents, and deposit sums of money.\'\' The first two practices had gone on openly, and been carried beyond all reasonable lengths ; the last-named had been indulged in secretly, but still to every one\'s knowledge. So our friend Homullus clearly availed himself of the uimity of the senate, and, instead of making a speech, he asked that the consuls should acquaint the Emperor with the wishes of the whole body of senators, and beg him to take steps to devise means to put a stop to this evil, as he had already done to other scandals. He has done so, for by means of the Corrupt Practices Act he has restricted the shameful and scandalous expenses which candidates used to incur, and he has issued orders that all candidates shall have invested a third of their patrimony in land. He very justly took the view that it was disgraceful that candidates for public offices should regard Rome and Italy, not as their mother country, but as a mere inn or lodging-place, in which they were staying as travellers. So the candidates are busy running about buying up whatever they hear is on sale, and they are forcing a number of estates into the market. Consequently if you are tired of your Italian estates, now is the real good time to sell them and buy others in the provinces, for the candidates have to sell their provincial properties to enable them to purchase here. Farewell. '' None |
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9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • office holders, state • Quinquennial board of officers, of pastophori
Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 342; Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 133
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10. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 29.1.36 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Valens, unfit for office • offices (Christian), diakonos (deacon) • offices (Christian), presbyteros (presbyter/priest)
Found in books: Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 278; Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 135
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29.1.36 When these had been removed after this information, Eutropius, Praetorian prefect in 380 and 381; whether he was the same as the author of the Epitome of Roman History is uncertain. then governing Asia with proconsular authority, was summoned on the charge of complicity in the plot. But he escaped without harm, saved by the philosopher Pasiphilus, who, although cruelly tortured to induce him to bring about the ruin of Eutropius through a false charge, could not be turned from the firmness of a steadfast mind.'' None |
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11. Aeschines, Or., 3.31
Tagged with subjects: • donations, given during the exercise of a public office • oaths, defendants holding public offices
Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 226; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 86
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3.31 Recall now what has been said: the lawgiver directs that after approval in court those appointed by the tribes shall “hold office”; but the tribe Pandionis appointed Demosthenes an “officer,” a Builder of Walls; and he has received for this work from the general treasury nearly ten talents. Another law forbids crowning an official before he has rendered his accounts, and you have sworn to vote according to the laws; but yonder politician has moved to crown the man who has not yet rendered his accounts, and he has not added “when he shall have rendered account and submitted to audit” and I convict him of the unlawful act, bringing as my witnesses the laws, the decrees, and the defendants. How could one more clearly prove that a man has made an unlawful motion?'' None |
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12. Demosthenes, Orations, 18.113
Tagged with subjects: • donations, given during the exercise of a public office • oaths, defendants holding public offices
Found in books: Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 226, 246; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 86
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18.113 But no, the law does not exist, men of Athens ; only this man, with his pettifogging spite, because, when I was in charge of the theatric fund, I added gifts of my own to that fund, says, Ctesiphon gave him a vote of thanks before he had rendered his accounts. Yes, but the vote of thanks did not concern the accounts which I had to render; it was for my own donations, you pettifogger! But you were also a Commissioner of Fortifications. Why, that is how I earned my vote of thanks: I made a present of the money I had spent, and did not charge it to the public account. The account requires an audit and checkers; the benefaction deserves gratitude and formal thanks, and that is the very reason for Ctesiphon ’s proposition.' ' None |
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13. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Priestesses, as public office holders • cult personnel, sale of offices
Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 255; Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020), Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B, 33
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14. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Delos,, sacred office holding at • office-holding
Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 210; Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 657
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