一些希腊使节也从伊斯坦布尔的希腊正教会为俄罗斯正教会带去了礼物。 这些使节的另一个身份是强大的商人。

Several ambassadors—powerful Greek merchants—brought gifts for the patriarch from Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox Church.

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但显然这位刚刚显露真迹的罗马亚洲人不是什么达官显贵或外交使节的后代，他只是个贫穷的干活者，和他一起埋葬的只是一个罐子而已。

But it's clear that this first known Roman Asian wasn't some aristocratic diplomat. He was just a poor worker, buried with a single pot.

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读者决不能嘲笑或者轻视这个国家的使节。

The reader is not invited to mock or despise these envoys of the state.

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