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What (who) is cui bono? - definition
LATIN PHRASE MEANING "WHO BENEFITS?"
Qui bono; Who benefits; Good for whom; Hidden motive; Cui Bono; Cui prodest?; Cui prodest; Qui prodest
cui bono?
[kwi:'b?n??, 'b??-]
¦ exclamation who stands to gain (i.e. from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it).
Origin
L., 'to whom (is it) a benefit?'
cui bono
[L.] For whose benefit, of what use.
Cui bono
·add. ·- Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.
Wikipedia
Cui bono
Cui bono? (Classical Latin: [kui̯ ˈbɔnoː]), in English "to whom is it a benefit?", is a Latin phrase about identifying crime suspects. It expresses the view that crimes are often committed to benefit their perpetrators, especially financially.
Examples of use of cui bono?
1. We keep reading that the Tory party needs a big hitter, but cui bono? if one is not sure whether the big hitter will be batting for ones own side?
2. So do instant certainties in the cold light of the following morning. ‘Cui bono?‘ asked an agonised Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. ‘Not Labour and not Blair‘s natural successor ... this is not a moment for I–told–you–so triumphalism about prime ministerial hubris.
3. In their place have come what Don DeLillo, in Libra, his brilliant psychological novel about Kennedy‘s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, calls "theories that gleam like jade idols". Such theories are seductive precisely because, as DeLillo puts it, they are "four–faced, graceful". Employing a 20/20 hindsight whose starting point is always cui bono? – who benefits? – they masquerade as an interrogation of the facts but are actually a labyrinth of mirrors.