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προξεν-ία , Thess. προξεννία IG9(2).258.6,9 (Cierium, ii B. C.): ἡ:—
A.relation of πρόξενος, treaty or compact of friendship between a state and a foreigner, Antipho Fr.67, Th.6.89; προξενίᾳ πέποιθα I trust my public friendship, Pi.N.7.65, cf. O.9.83; τινὰ π. ἐξευρήσεις; what protector wilt thou find? E.Med.359 (anap., v.l.).
2. status and privileges of a πρόξενος, “π., εὐεργεσία, ἀπέλεια ἁπάντων” D.20.60; τὴν παλαιὰν π . . . ἣν τοῦ πάππου ἀπειπόντος αὐτὸς [sc. “ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης . . διενοεῖτο ἀνανεώσασθαι” Th.5.43; “τὴν π. ὑμῶν . . πατρὸς πατὴρ πατρῴαν ἔχων παρεδίδου τῷ γένει” X.HG6.3.4; “ἡ πρὸς Οηβαίους π.” Aeschin.2.141; freq. in Inscrr., IG12.116.40, etc.; coupled with other privileges, e.g. προνομία, προπραξία, ib.9(1).442.4 (Stratos, iv B. C.); πολιτεία, ἀσυλία ib.9(2).62.12 (Lamia, iii B. C.), etc.; ἔγγυος τᾶς π. ib.14; “ἔγγυος τᾶν π. ὁ γραμματεύς” SIG629.31 (Delph., ii B. C.).
II. inscription or written instrument in witness of προξενία, in pl., Arist.Ath. 54.3, Plb.12.11.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 141
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 54.3
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 60
    • Euripides, Medea, 359
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.89
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.11.2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.43
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