[Meaning] to take bribes.[1]
Also [sc. attested in the active voice] 'to bribe in tens' [deka/zein]: to corrupt with money or gifts.
Aelian [writes]: "he corrupted many of the nomads, having bribed them in tens into treachery".[2]
Also[3] [sc. attested is the participle] '[he] bribing in tens' [deka/zwn], clear in its meaning. This is how the term came about.[4] Lykos is a hero who has the shape of the beast [sc. of a wolf]. A stone monument to him stands near the jurycourts in Athens; at this [monument], bribers used to gather, forming themselves into groups of ten. This gave rise to the proverb: Lykos's Company of Ten. So from the Company of Ten came [the terms] bribing in tens and to be bribed in tens.