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Definition of Alcibiades
1. Noun. Ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcibiades
Literary usage of Alcibiades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"But dSs^ot' Alcibiades was not as yet quite sure of Tissaphernes, who was more
afraid of the Peloponnesians than of the and to Athenians, and was still ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Alcibiades negotiates with the Athenians at Samos. — Phrynichus. ... Recall of
Alcibiades. IN the interval between the battle of Miletus and the interview ..."
3. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1907)
"THE First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is
represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1860)
"Influence of Alcibiades at Samos. — Reaction against the Oligarchy at Athens.
... Recall of Alcibiades. IN the interval between the battle of Miletus and ..."
5. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"the policies of Alcibiades as he had earlier advocated those of Pericles.
Alcibiades after his rebuff at the hands of Sparta threw himself into the arms of ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Though fortune thus favoured the prudence of Lysander, he declined to venture a
second engagement with the superior strength of Alcibiades, who, ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Then did Socrates will Alcibiades to seeke out the situation of Athens, which
when he ... Alcibiades, having sought a long time and yet never the nearer, ..."
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