Ambassadors
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ambassadors
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Against Timocrates
Elected envoys accused of retaining public and sacred money and receiving special relief.
And there is another consideration for you to bear in mind,—how injuriously you would have been treated by Timocrates, if he alone had been your ambassador.
In my view, no punishment could be too severe for a man who, when some market-clerk, or street-inspector, or judge of a local court,—some poor, unskilled man, without experience, and appointed to his office by lot,—has been found guilty of peculation at the audits, demands from him a tenfold restitution, and has no new law to propose for the relief of such delinquents, and then, when ambassadors, …
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
Elected envoys whom Apollodorus was ordered to transport to Sicily.
It happened that I was sent as trierarch round the Peloponnesus, and from thence I had to carry to Sicily the ambassadors whom the people had elected.
On the Navy-Boards
Athenian envoys who would seek Greek support if Athens issued an immediate summons.
Therefore your ambassadors will only go round repeating their heroics.
The Rights of War and Peace
Diplomatic agents whose promises made in the name of their sovereigns are discussed as a case of agency.
This rule, we must observe, applies to the promises made by ambassadors in the name of their sovereigns, when, by virtue of their public credentials, they have exceeded their private orders.