Alcibiades
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When his “political enemy,” the glib and popular Alcibiades, sways the assembly, Nicias replies that this means sending both a fleet and “large numbers of land forces.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
His questioning often embarrassed powerful people in Athens and made enemies, while his disciples included the politician Alcibiades and even some who had opposed Athenian democracy.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2020
British Idiom had won a maiden sprint at Saratoga and then the Grade I Alcibiades around two turns last month at Keeneland.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2019
But Duris, in his treatise on Euripides and Sophocles, says that Alcibiades learnt music, not of any ordinary master, but of Pronomus, who had the very highest reputation in that line.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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