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  • Athenian politician and general whose brilliant military career foundered during the Peloponnesian War (431–404), during which he changed allegiance three times.

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  • noun ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC)

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  • Alcibiades is 39 pages; I started a week ago, reading for an hour a day.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Alcibiades is 39 pages; I started a week ago, reading for an hour a day.

    Notes on Plato's Alcibiades Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • The people also passed a vote recalling Alcibiades and others from exile, and sending to him and to the army in Samos exhorted them to act vigorously.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Meanwhile the chiefs at Samos, and especially Thrasybulus, who from the moment that he had changed the government had remained firmly resolved to recall Alcibiades, at last in an assembly brought over the mass of the soldiery, and upon their voting for his recall and amnesty, sailed over to Tissaphernes and brought

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • They voted themselves to be the true Athens, and forgetting and forgiving the past, recalled Alcibiades, and gave him command of the army, thereby well illustrating what the poet Aristophanes said respecting the disposition of the Athenians towards the spoiled favorite, -- "They love, they hate, but cannot live without him."

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • They recalled Alcibiades, and asked him to help them.

    The Story of the Greeks 1894

  • Meanwhile the chiefs at Samos, and especially Thrasybulus, who from the moment that he had changed the government had remained firmly resolved to recall Alcibiades, at last in an assembly brought over the mass of the soldiery, and upon their voting for his recall and amnesty, sailed over to Tissaphernes and brought Alcibiades to

    The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

  • Archons, the Senate, and other institutions were revived; and a vote was passed to recall Alcibiades and some of his friends.

    A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

  • "The name of Socrates recalls Alcibiades to my mind," rejoined

    Philothea A Grecian Romance Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

  • For who that hath red Plato his dialogue called Alcibiades, Xenophon and Maximus Tyrius of Socrates opinions, may easily perceiue, that such loue is muche to be alowed and liked of, specially so meant, as Socrates vsed it: who sayth, that in deede he loued Alcybiades extremely, yet not Alcybiades person, but hys soule, which is Alcibiades owne selfe.

    Shepheardes Calendar 1579

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