Spartan envoys
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
envoys · anyone who came from Sparta · envoys from Sparta
in the texts
Against Leptines
Spartan representatives involved in Themistocles' wall-building deception.
Now history tells us that Themistocles bade his countrymen get on with the building and detain anyone who came from Sparta, while he went off himself on an embassy to the Lacedaemonians;
For the Liberty of the Rhodians
Spartan representatives in the historical example concerning Athenian refugees.
They, being the immediate neighbors of the Lacedaemonians and seeing them masters of land and sea, did not hesitate or fear to show their goodwill to you, but actually carried a decree that the envoys, who, we are told, had come from Sparta to claim the persons of some of your refugees, should be denounced as enemies unless they took their departure before the setting of the sun.