Complete Definition of "proxeny"

English

Etymology
From Greek ��ο- (pro - for) + ξένο� (xenos - stranger).

Noun
proxeny

  1. in Ancient Greece, an arangment whereby a citizen (chosen by the city) hosted foreign ambassadors at his own expense, in return for honorary titles from the state.

#: If there be near me now a man of the Achaians who dwelleth far up the Ionian sea, he shall not upbraid me : I have faith in my proxeny[...] -- Pindarus.

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