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Alcibiades
[al-suh-bahy-uh-deez]
noun
450?–404 b.c., Athenian politician and general.
Alcibiades
/ ˌæɪˈɪəˌ徱ː /
noun
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 51Թ Forms
- Alcibiadean adjective
- ˌˌˈ adjective
Example Sentences
Given Socrates’ talents as an interlocutor, Pigliucci asks why he failed to educate the handsome, rich and powerful Alcibiades to become a better statesman.
The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.
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.
British Idiom had won a maiden sprint at Saratoga and then the Grade I Alcibiades around two turns last month at Keeneland.
Here she is in action, winning the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes:
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