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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61. You can also browse the collection for Argos (Greece) or search for Argos (Greece) in all documents.
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Demosthenes, Against Callippus, section 5 (search)
No
sooner had he set out, and was sailing around the Argolic gulf, than his ship
was captured by pirate vessels and his goods taken to Argos, while he himself was shot down by an
arrow, and met his death. Immediately after this mischance this man Callippus
came to the bank, and asked whether they knew Lycon, the Heracleote. Phormion,
who is here present, answered that they knew him. “Was he a customer
of yours?” “He was,” said Phormion, “but
why do you ask?” “Why?” said he, “I will
tell you. He is dead, and, as it happens, I am proxenosThe proxenos was sort of consular agent, empowered to act in
the interest of his country and his countryman in a foreign state. of
the Heracleotes. I demand therefore that you show me your books, that I may know
whether he
Demosthenes, Against Callippus, section 10 (search)
More than this, when he was brought to Argos, wounded, he gave to Strammenus, the
Argive proxenos of the Heracleotes,
the property which was brought in with him. I, therefore, am likewise in a
position to claim the money that is here; for I think it is right that I should
have it. Do you, therefore, if Cephisiades has not recovered it, say, if he
should come here, that I dispute his claim; and if he has recovered it, say that
I came with witnesses and demanded that the money be produced, or the person who
has received it; and, if anyone tries to defraud me, let him know that he is
defrauding a proxenos.