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δωρο-δοκέω ,
A.accept as a present, esp. take as a bribe, “ἀργύριον πολλόν” Hdt.6.72; “χρυσόν” Pl. R.590a; “κατὰ πεντήκοντα τάλαντα” Ar.V.669.
2. abs., take bribes, Hdt.6.82, D.18.45, etc.; “ἐπί τινι” Lys.21.22, D.18.49.
II. c. acc. pers. (only in later Gr., for δωροδοκοῦσιν is f.l. in Ar.V.675 and δωροδοκοῦντας (abs.) is interpol. in D.9.45), corrupt by bribes, D.S.13.64, Arr.Epict.4.1.148, Luc.Pisc.9, etc.
2. simply, bestow gifts, AP9.335 (Leon.): c. acc., ib.12.204 (Strat.).
III. Pass., of persons, to have a bribe given one, Cratin.128, cf. Plb.6.56.2, D.H.4.55 (as v.l.); also ταῦθ᾽ ἁπλῶς δεδωροδόκηται this has been accomplished by bribery, D.19.329 (v.l. -ηνται）; τὰ περὶ τὴν Εὔβοιαν δωροδοκηθέντα the bribery in the matter of Euboea, Aeschin.3.221; “τὸ δεδωροδοκημένον χρυσίον” Din.1.66.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 221
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    • Plato, Republic, 590a
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