Proxenos

Hence, the person who received and entertained strangers in his house, in the name of the whole city, was called Proxenos.

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He clung about Proxenos 'neck, telling of some nursery exploit.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

I had never seen Proxenos transformed with anger; but it seemed that I saw him now.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

The name of Harmodios 'father is not known; but J.K. Davies, in his indispensable Athenian Propertied Families, 600 — 300 B.C., gives Proxenos as a family name.

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The old granddad had stayed at home; a man nearly as old, doubtless his brother, walked in the place of honor, the only adult male, alongside Proxenos 'young son.

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On my way, I fell in with a man I knew, a certain Proxenos, one of the first men of the Gephyriot clan.

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"That's to be seen," said Proxenos, proudly rumpling his golden hair.

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He looked to Proxenos for everything, not to a dried old reed like me.

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Proxenos picked him up, and pretended to scold him; but I could see, and he too no doubt, that his father was delighted to show him off.

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I wondered how many stitches the daughter of Proxenos had put into it, and with what hopes.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978