Nicias

[ nish-ee-uh s ]

/ ˈnɪʃ i əs /

noun

died 413 b.c., Athenian statesman and general.

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Example sentences from the Web for nicias

Nicias, poor honest man, might just as well have sate still; his speaking did but little good.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4)|Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nicias, of Athens, was celebrated for the delicacy with which he painted females.
Museum of Antiquity|L. W. Yaggy
The characters of Nicias and Laches are indicated by their opinions on the exhibition of the man fighting in heavy armour.
Laches|Plato
Eucrites rose, and placing his arm on the shoulder of Nicias, led him to the end of the hall.
Thais|Anatole France

And yet Nicias, would you allow that you are yourself a soothsayer, or are you neither a soothsayer nor courageous?
Laches|Plato

British Dictionary definitions for nicias

Nicias

/ (ˈnɪsɪəs) /

noun

died 414 bc, Athenian statesman and general. He ended the first part of the Peloponnesian War by making peace with Sparta (421)

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