The cast of Venality - 2011 includes: Joe Louis Melendez as Detective Michaels Kevin Tindell as Mark Avery

Social conditions and political venality

Procopius does not paint Justinian in a positive light in the Secret History. He stresses the emperors cruelty, venality, wastefulness, and incompetence.

He bribed some cities to join his confederation, and their armies became available to him. Others were brought in by force. The Greeks were famous for their venality - Xerxes added 40,000 Greek city-state soldiers to his invading army.

Philip famously said that he could take any city as long as it had a path up which he could drive a donkey laden with gold.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 5 words with the pattern VEN---T-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter V and 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N and 7th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

venality

vendetta

venenate

venerate

venosity