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Headword: *pro/cenos
Adler number: pi,2539
Translated headword: proxenos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one newly arrived from a foreign city.[1]
[Demades] proposed that Euthycrates [of Olynthus], who had been deprived of civic rights by the Athenians, should have them restored and be proxenos of the Athenians.[2]
Greek Original:
*pro/cenos: o( ne/hlus po/lews ce/nhs. o( de\ *eu)qukra/th a)timwqe/nta para\ *)aqhnai/ois e)yhfi/sato e)pi/timon ei)=nai kai\ pro/cenon *)aqhnai/wn.
Notes:
[1] cf. iota 114.
[2] cf. delta 415. Euthycrates, together with his fellow-citizen Lasthenes, "betrayed" Olynthus to Philip II of Macedon in 348 BCE (see under kappa 356), but, a dozen or so years later, he was here being rehabilitated; cf. Hyperides fr. 76 Jensen.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history; law; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 February 2010@09:48:22.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 27 February 2010@17:24:16.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 28 February 2010@04:45:52.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 1 March 2010@06:19:24.
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