Sacred Embassy
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sacred embassy
in the texts
Against Meidias
Civic religious delegation led by Demosthenes to Nemean Zeus.
he suffered me as head of the Sacred Embassy to lead it in the name of the city to the Nemean shrine of Zeus;
Memorabilia
Civic-religious delegation whose absence postpones Socrates' execution.
For he was forced to live for thirty days after the verdict was given, because it was the month of the Dêlia, and the law did not allow any public execution to take place until the sacred embassy had returned from Delos.