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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)

Note 178 — LIFE OF AGESILAUS.

George Long translation

The Greek word here translated "guest" is explained by Liddell and Scott, s.v., to mean "any person in a foreign city with whom one has a treaty of hospitality for self and heirs, confirmed by mutual presents and an appeal to Ζεὺς ξένιος."

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