Foreigners
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
foreigners · another state · foreign crowns · foreign states · men from abroad · those who come from abroad
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Non-Athenian persons or states whose petitions, honors, and crowns create legal complications.
and, most invidious of all, certain men who had secured positions as agents of foreign states managed to have proclaimed that they were crowned—it might be by the people of Rhodes, or of Chios, or of some other state—in recognition of their merit and uprightness.
And you ought to let no man rob you of this right of yours, whether through the intercession of the generals, who by their cooperation with certain public men have this long time been outraging the constitution, or through petitions of foreigners, whom some bring in here, and so escape the courts, when their whole political career has been in defiance of the laws.
When, therefore, the lawgiver designates, for those who are crowned by the senate, the senate-house as the place of proclamation, and, for those who are crowned by the people, the assembly, and when he forbids those who are crowned by the demes or tribes to be proclaimed at the tragedies—that no one may try to get spurious honor by begging crowns and proclamations, and when in the law he further f …
To Nicocles
Foreigners include outside wise men and visitors toward whom the city should show security and trustworthy dealings.
and in your treatment of those who come from abroad, make the most, not of those who bring you gifts, but of those who expect to receive gifts from you;
On the contrary, be convinced that education and diligence are in the highest degree potent to improve our nature, and associate yourself with the wisest of those who are about you and send for the wisest men from abroad whenever this is possible.