Friendship and alliance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
friends · adherents · alliance · allies · ally · assistance · benefactors · friend
in the texts
Anabasis
Moral and political bond claimed between Seuthes, Xenophon, the Greeks, and Odrysian authorities.
For Medocus, the king, would never commend me if I should drive forth his benefactors.
but for one who is a friend, to deceived seems to me more shameful than to be deceived.
and when they told him that they had come after the army, he replied that he would deliver it up and that he desired to be their friend and ally;
Cyropaedia
Political bond maintained by assistance, fairness, and reciprocal benefit.
That is only fair, said he.
Good, then, answered Cyrus;
To this Cyaxares said nothing.