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    Embassies and ambassadors

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    ambassadors · embassies · deputations · embassy · envoys

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    Ambassadors and embassies1 mention

    First Olynthiac (Greek)

    My own idea would be to vote an expedition at once, to make instant preparation for its dispatch, thus avoiding our previous blunder, and to send ambassadors to state our intentions and watch events.
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    First OlynthiacClassical · Greek

    Diplomatic representatives whom Athens should send to announce intentions and monitor affairs.

    My own idea would be to vote an expedition at once, to make instant preparation for its dispatch, thus avoiding our previous blunder, and to send ambassadors to state our intentions and watch events.
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    Send embassies when necessary.
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    On the ChersoneseClassical · Greek

    Athenian diplomatic missions used to warn, instruct, and exhort other Greeks.

    Men of Athens, do you send us embassies on every occasion to explain how Philip is plotting against us and all the other Greeks, and how we must be on our guard against that man, and all that sort of thing?
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    We must send ambassadors in every direction to instruct, to exhort, to act.
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    Then why do you pester us with your embassies and your complaints?
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    On the CrownClassical · Greek

    Diplomatic agents and missions central to the conflict between Athens, Philip, and allies.

    Philip had sent to us Pytho of Byzantium in company with an embassy representing all his allies, hoping to bring dishonor upon Athens and convict her of injustice.
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    In the recordership of Bosporichus, Damagetus proposed in the Assembly, with the sanction of the Council, that, whereas the Athenian People in former times have been constant friends of the Byzantines and of their allies and kinsmen the Perinthians, and have conferred many great services upon them, and recently, when Philip of Macedon attacked their land and city to exterminate the Byzantines and …
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    For the ambassadors who came here from Cleitarchus and Philistides lodged at your house and you entertained them.
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    Third PhilippicClassical · Greek

    Diplomatic messengers and missions central to Greek coalition-building and Philip's justification tactics.

    Then having completed all these preparations and made our purpose clear, we must lose no time in calling upon the other Greeks, and we must inform them by sending ambassadors [in every direction, to the Peloponnese, to Rhodes, to Chios, to the Great King—for even his interests are not unaffected if we prevent Philip from subduing the whole country—] so that if you win them over, you may have someo …
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    Again, when he was marching against the Phocians, he still pretended that they were his allies, and Phocian ambassadors accompanied him on his march, and most people here at Athens contended that his passage through Thermopylae would be anything but a gain to the Thebans.
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    And we Greeks see and hear all this, and yet we do not send embassies to one another and express our indignation.
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