Herald
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Herald the figure
Heralds · herald · herald's staff · heralds · the Heralds
spoken of as
1 expressionHeralds1 mention
Constitution of the Athenians (Greek)
And each of these was composed of thirty clans, and each clan had thirty men, those arranged into the clans, who were called clansmen, from whom the priesthoods belonging to each were allotted—for instance the Eumolpidae and the Heralds and the Eteobutadae—as Aristotle records in the Constitution of the Athenians, saying thus:
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
A priestly group whose priesthood was allotted from among the clansmen.
And each of these was composed of thirty clans, and each clan had thirty men, those arranged into the clans, who were called clansmen, from whom the priesthoods belonging to each were allotted—for instance the Eumolpidae and the Heralds and the Eteobutadae—as Aristotle records in the Constitution of the Athenians, saying thus:
Anabasis
Official messengers whose authority is necessary for assembly and diplomacy.
so he directed the herald to call an assembly.
and as for the dead whom previously the very men who killed them proposed burying, the result accomplished is, that now it is not safe to pick up their bodies even for one who carries a herald’s staff.