Alcibiades

[al-suh-bahy-uh-deez]

noun

1. 450?–404 b.c., Athenian politician and general.

Alcibiades

/ ˌælsɪˈbaɪəˌdiːz /

noun

1. 450–404 _bc , Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)

Other Word Forms

• Alcibiadean adjective

Example Sentences

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.”

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Given Socrates’ talents as an interlocutor, Pigliucci asks why he failed to educate the handsome, rich and powerful Alcibiades to become a better statesman.

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The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.

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Alcibiades Cifuentes and Jennifer Wee Cifuentes have admitted in federal court in Newark that they took money from about 25 people, purportedly to invest in the foreign currency and commodities markets.

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British Idiom had won a maiden sprint at Saratoga and then the Grade I Alcibiades around two turns last month at Keeneland.

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