From the Greek euergetou euergetes: beneficent ( eu ergon: good work ). Donation and distribution of own assets in the form of food, money, gifts, invitations, parties, restoration of works by part some rich and powerful members of a community apparently in a way desinterasada. These benefactors individuals, called ceceronian existed since the era of classical Greece and had different motivations: from the social recognition of the power and authority, the show's own fortune, to the achievement of the submission of others. In Rome, some paying bread and circus with their own money.
