[Meaning] one who is a guest-friend by himself in private. But a proxenos is one newly arrived from a foreign city, to whom the ambassadors are conducted. And this man introduces the embassies to the public officials and arranges and manages the other matters in his own country, which differ from those in that city for which he serves as proxenos. But a doruxenos is a man who because of war has become a guest-friend to someone; and an astoxenos is one whose ancestors were fellow-citizens, but he himself is a stranger and needs renewal [of rights]; like Agamemnon in Lydia.[1]
Appian [writes]: "the general, having learned from private guest-friends, reported to [sc. King] Hostilius [...]."[2]