Alcibiades (Alcibi`ades) , an Athenian of high birth, and related to Pericles, possessed of a handsome person, brilliant abilities, and great wealth, but was of a wayward temper and depraved, whom Socrates tried hard to win over to virtue, but failed. He involved his country in a rash expedition against Sicily, served and betrayed it by turns in the Peloponnesian war, and died by assassination in exile (450‒404 B.C.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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