proxenos

Xen. "s.v." Men of Lacedaemon, it is in my capacity as 'proxenos' and 'benefactor'

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

Utterly taken aback by the affair themselves, the ambassadors pleaded that, had they been aware of an attempt to seize Piraeus, they would hardly have been so foolish as to put themselves into the power of the Athenians, or have selected the house of their proxenos for protection, where they were so easily to be found.

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Callias their proxenos; their names were Etymocles, Aristolochus, and Ocyllus.

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I hoped I had finished with small-town theaters, and was therefore passing by the Megarian proxenos 'office, when I met Eupolis coming out.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

When they had reached the frontiers of the Mossynoecians (1) they sent to him Timesitheus the Trapezuntine, who was the proxenos (2) of the

Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

As chance befell, there were some Lacedaemonian ambassadors in Athens at the moment, at the house of Callias their proxenos; their names were Etymocles, Aristolochus, and Ocyllus.

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

Utterly taken aback by the affair themselves, the ambassadors pleaded that, had they been aware of an attempt to seize Piraeus, they would hardly have been so foolish as to put themselves into the power of the Athenians, or have selected the house of their proxenos for protection, where they were so easily to be found.

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

‘proxenos’ and ‘benefactor’ (titles borne by my ancestry from time immemorial) that I claim, or rather am bound, in case of any difficulty to come to you, and, in case of any complication dangerous to your interests in Thessaly, to give you warning.

Hellenica 2007

Meanwhile Agis, as he looked out from Deceleia, and saw vessel after vessel laden with corn running down to Piraeus, declared that it was useless for his troops to go on week after week excluding the Athenians from their own land, while no one stopped the source of their corn supply by sea: the best plan would be to send Clearchus, (11) the son of Rhamphius, who was proxenos (12) of the Byzantines, to Chalcedon and

Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

“Lacedaemonians, the duty of representing you as proxenos at Athens is a privilege which I am not the first member of my family to enjoy; my father’s father held it as an heirloom of our family and handed it down as a heritage to his descendants.

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