Envoy
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
envoy · envoys · messenger
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Manusmṛti
The royal representative responsible for diplomacy, alliance-making, and intelligence.
For it is the envoy who makes alliances and who breaks up those who are allied;
An envoy who is loyal, pure, skillful, of good memory, who knows the proper place and time, who is handsome, fearless, and eloquent is praised for a king.
And he should appoint an envoy who is thoroughly versed in all the sacred treatises, who understands hints, expression, and gestures, who is pure, skillful, and of noble birth.
Anabasis
Representatives sent by neighbouring peoples to negotiate friendship with Xenophon.
Even the hostile peoples who dwelt near by began now to send envoys to Xenophon—for they heard that he was the man who was making a city of the place—to ask what they must do in order to be his friends;