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Definition
an ambassador and staff who live in a country to represent their home country; or the building where they work
- THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.2.8 — Volume 2 Book 8 (97% in)
- Dear friend, remember now th' injunctions giv'n By old Menoetius, when from Phthian land He sent thee forth to Agamemnon's aid: I, and Laertes' godlike son, within, Heard all his counsel; to the well-built house Of Peleus we on embassy had come, Throughout Achaia's fertile lands to raise The means of war; Menoetius there we found, Achilles, and thyself within the house; While in the court-yard aged Peleus slew, And to the Lord of thunder offer'd up A fatten'd steer; and from a golden...2.11 — Volume 2 Book 11 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "embassy" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward).
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