Persian King
quoted 7 times by 6 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Persian King the figure
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
7 reported
5 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsedin the voice of Corcyraeans 1 , Demosthenes 1 , Reports about the King's Egyptian campaign 1 , Socrates 1 , Spartans 1 , the Persian king 1
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in the voice of Demosthenes
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For the Liberty of the Rhodians Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 endorsed 2 citations
The passage presents an imagined speech act to the King.
For indeed, if the King admitted me to his presence and asked me for my advice, I should give him the same that I gave you—to defend his own subjects, if any of the Greeks attacked them, but to claim no sovereignty over those who owed him no allegiance.
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 refuted 1 citation
The Persian king's practice is reported and criticized
Whence I think the Persian neither in other respects prudent, nor in this — that he sent chance men everywhere, called "the king's ears," and entrusted to them to hear everything, when he ought to have guarded the king's ears far more than the golden plane-tree, lest he hear something disagreeable and harmful.
oration 57 ¶ -
in the voice of Corcyraeans
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The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation
The Corcyraeans' planned self-justifying speech to the Persian king is reported as an anticipated statement.
Their course of action, therefore, had been planned with a view to being able to say to the Persian, “O king, we whose power is as great as any and who could have furnished as many ships as any state save Athens,—we, when the Greeks attempted to gain our aid in this war, would not resist you nor do anything displeasing to you.
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in the voice of Spartans
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Panathenaicus Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation · 4 passages
The passage reports treaty promises and written covenants between Sparta and the Persian king.
Who does not know that the Spartans, notwithstanding that they and we harbor in common a feeling of hatred towards the barbarians and their kings, and notwithstanding that the Athenians, although beset by many wars and involved at times in great disasters, their territory being often ravaged and cut off by the enemy, never once turned their eyes towards friendship and alliance with the barbarians, …
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in the voice of the Persian king
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On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation
Paragraph 85 reports the Persian king's tears and the thought that prompted them, functioning as a reported speech/emotion act.
When the most insolent king of the Persians spread out his army over vast plains and could grasp not its number but only its extent, he poured forth tears that within a hundred years not one of so great a host of young men would be left alive.
on the shortness of life ¶ -
in the voice of Socrates
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Economics Xenophon 1 neutral 1 citation
The paragraph recounts the king's request as part of the supervision analogy.
The king, you know, had happened on a good horse, and wanted to fatten him as speedily as possible.
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