Royal office
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
royal office · despots · kingdom · kings · monarchs · office · princes · throne
in the texts
Antidosis
Monarchical power and royal responsibility, presented as one setting for Isocrates' moral and political counsel.
for he declares that I have had as my pupils not only private persons but orators, generals, kings, and despots;
After discussing this point, I enjoin upon Nicocles not to be easy-going and not to feel that he had taken up the royal office as one takes up the office of a priest, but to put aside his selfish pleasures and give his mind to his affairs.
It was with the same motive that I decided to present this discourse to you on the present occasion, not that it is the best written of my works, but that through it you will best see in what spirit I am wont to deal with princes as well as with private men;
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The institutional position of kingship whose legitimacy, respect, and hereditary recovery are emphasized.
and, second, that I hold this office, not illegally nor as a usurper, but with the just sanction of gods and men, and by virtue of my earliest ancestors, and of my father and of myself.
for, in the first place, we all know that the empire of the Persians attained its great magnitude, not because of the intelligence of the population, but because they more than other peoples respect the royal office;
and that, after his other descendants had lost the throne, my father, Evagoras, won it back again by undergoing the greatest dangers, and wrought so great a change that Phoenicians no longer rule over Salaminians, while they, to whom it belonged in the beginning, are today in possession of the kingdom?