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Robert A Mosher (he/him)'s avatar

My high school Latin teachers presented “ambassadors” as hostages for the good behavior of the heads of state they represented. I was quite happy that such an attitude is no longer generally applied.

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I know that our modern ideas about diplomacy date from The Treaty of Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna, but now I wonder if there was a diplomatic corps hanging around Rome?

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