Embassies and ambassadors
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ambassadors · embassies · deputations · embassy · envoys
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1 expressionAmbassadors and embassies1 mention
First Olynthiac (Greek)
Send embassies when necessary.
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First Olynthiac
Diplomatic representatives whom Athens should send to announce intentions and monitor affairs.
Send embassies when necessary.
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.
On the Chersonese
Athenian diplomatic missions used to warn, instruct, and exhort other Greeks.
Then why do you pester us with your embassies and your complaints?
We must send ambassadors in every direction to instruct, to exhort, to act.
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?
On the Crown
Diplomatic agents and missions central to the conflict between Athens, Philip, and allies.
then the embassy to Euboea, when he was tampering with Euboea;
For the ambassadors who came here from Cleitarchus and Philistides lodged at your house and you entertained them.
—Your ambassadors, Cephisophon and Democritus and Polycritus, visited me and discussed the release of the vessels commanded by Leodamas.
Third Philippic
Diplomatic messengers and missions central to Greek coalition-building and Philip's justification tactics.
And we Greeks see and hear all this, and yet we do not send embassies to one another and express our indignation.
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.
nor were those embassies useless which you sent round the Peloponnese last year to denounce Philip, when I and our good friend Polyeuctus here and Hegesippus and the rest went from city to city and succeeded in checking him, so that he never invaded Ambracia nor even started against the Peloponnese.