Governors · Atlas

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The governors2 mentions

Orations (Greek) · Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)

and not, rather, shameful and ridiculous ruins, far meaner than the huts under which sheep take shelter, into which not one of the shepherds could enter, nor even of the nobler dogs — buildings at which you blushed and were abashed when the governors came in, while those ill-disposed toward you exulted and laughed;

oration 40 ¶

in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Provincial governors ruling over Bithynia, who exploit the rivalry between Nicomedia and Nicaea

For when the cities are made one, you will rule over them all, and there will come to the governors more hesitation and fear toward you, should they wish to do wrong.

oration 38 ¶

and not, rather, shameful and ridiculous ruins, far meaner than the huts under which sheep take shelter, into which not one of the shepherds could enter, nor even of the nobler dogs — buildings at which you blushed and were abashed when the governors came in, while those ill-disposed toward you exulted and laughed;

oration 40 ¶

Adab al-wazīrMedieval · Arabic

Provincial governors and agents (ʻummāl, wulāh), the intermediaries through whom the subjects' yield is drawn and whose failure produces riot.

what the subjects have is brought out only by their governors, what the troops have only by their commanders, and what is in religion and interpretation only by its scholars.

ch. 3 ¶ · printed page 37

The second is that he provide for their sufficiency, so that they neither take fright through strength nor scatter through weakness, since both are a flaw in rule (al-mulk):

ch. 3 ¶ · printed page 33

ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

Roman provincial officials addressed sarcastically as agents of persecuting Christians.

But go to, good governors — much better in the people's eyes if you sacrifice the Christians to them:

apologeticum ¶

AnabasisClassical · Greek

Officials of cities or districts who might follow Cleander's hostile report.

Hence if this man shall begin by shutting us out of Byzantium, and then shall send word to the other governors not to receive us into their cities, on the ground that we are disobedient to the Lacedaemonians and lawless, and if, further, this report about us shall reach Anaxibius, the Lacedaemonian admiral, it will be difficult for us either to remain or to sail away;

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