How To Use Alcibiades In A Sentence
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Two portraits of Socrates frame the Symposium, one painted by Aristodemus, the good thief, the best of the deme, the other by Alcibiades, the bad thief.
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Most noble and illustrious drinkers, and you thrice precious pockified blades (for to you, and none else, do I dedicate my writings), Alcibiades, in that dialogue of Plato's which is entitled, "The Banquet," whilst he was setting forth the praises of his schoolmaster Socrates (without all question the prince of philosophers), amongst other discourses to that purpose said that he resembled the Sileni.
Classic French Course in English
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When Aristophon, the painter, had drawn Nemea sitting and holding Alcibiades in her arms, the multitude seemed pleased with the piece, and thronged to see it, but older people disliked and disrelished it, and looked on these things as enormities, and movements towards tyranny.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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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
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Florentes annis, — — — they both excel in gifts of body and mind, are both equal in years, youth, vigour, alacrity, she is fair and lovely as Lais or Helen, he as another Charinus or Alcibiades,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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
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Socrates pulchrorum Adolescentum causa frequens Gymnasium adibat, flagitiosque spectaculo pascebat oculos, quod et Philebus et Phaedon, Rivales, Charmides et [4696] reliqui Platonis Dialogi, satis superque testatum faciunt: quod vero Alcibiades de eodem Socrate loquatur, lubens conticesco, sed et abhorreo; tantum incitamentum praebet libidini.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Alcibiades, after a severe blockade (408 B.C.), gained possession of the city through the treachery of the Athenian party; in 405 B.C. it was retaken by Lysander and placed under a Spartan harmost.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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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
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Although he places Socrates above everyone else, Alcibiades in his presumptuousness wants to make an exchange between equals; he seeks to swap his own beauty for the other's knowledge.
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Alcibiades is 39 pages; I started a week ago, reading for an hour a day.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Alcibiades raves (saith [3404] Maximus Tyrius) and is sick, his furious desires carry him from Lyceus to the pleading place, thence to the sea, so into Sicily, thence to Lacedaemon, thence to Persia, thence to Samos, then again to Athens; Critias tyranniseth over all the city; Sardanapalus is lovesick; these men are ill-affected all, and can never be cured, till their minds be otherwise qualified.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Alcibiades: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
The First Alcibiades
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He was responsible for the recall of Alcibiades and contributed largely to the naval success of the following years.
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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
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ALCIBIADES: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
Alcibiades I
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I knew that in one evening Alcibiades had cut the penises off half the herms in Athens.
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Or, again, "Alcibiades is dead, but X is still with us"; the whole meaning of this 'exponible' is that X would be the lesser loss to society.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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He felt that it was his part to chuse whom he would resemble, yet he remained unresolved, though the spectator of an hundred shades of renown, among which glided by Alexander, Alcibiades, and Hephestion: at length appeared the supernatural effigy of a man, whose perfections human artist never could depict or insculp -- Demetrius, the son of Antigonus.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
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Alcibiades the disastrous Sicilian expedition and later ended his life as a defector going to Sparta.
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Alcibiades _gave to_ Socrates, _when he compar'd him to the Statues of the_ Sileni, _which to look upon, had nothing beautiful and ornamental; but open them, and there you might discover the Images of all the Gods and Goddesses.
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)
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Not surprisingly, she invokes one of her author's most im - portant adages, “The Sileni of Alcibiades” (Adagiorum chiliades III.iii. 1), in which it is argued that the inner essence of any matter is often the opposite of its outer appearance, to explain that the apparently foolish may actually be wise, the apparently wise, foolish.
WISDOM OF THE FOOL
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These pseudo-Titians were for Monsieur About his Alcibiades's dog's-tail.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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Already, half an hour ago Alcibiades and Yaxis had departed with their pushcarts, one to the north and one to the south, calling antiphonally as they went, in clear, high voices that came fainter and fainter to
Mr. Achilles
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Unlike Alcibiades, who had brought destruction everywhere, he, Hadrian, had governed a world infinitely larger ... and had kept pace therein; I had rigged it like a fair ship made ready for a voyage which might last for centuries; I had striven my utmost to encourage in man the sense of the divine but without at the same time sacrificing to it what is essentially human.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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The name of Socrates recalls Alcibiades to my mind," rejoined
Philothea A Grecian Romance
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These pseudo-Titians were for Monsieur About his Alcibiades's dog's-tail.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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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
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In point of civilization and what we call cultivation, Alcibiades was immeasurably superior to Saint Paul,
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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They recalled Alcibiades, and asked him to help them.
The Story of the Greeks
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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
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An even more telling example of Erasmus 'desire to link any praise of Socrates with a Christian theme is Erasmus' adage Sileni Alcibiadis (“The Sileni of Alcibiades”), first published in the expanded Adagia of 1515.
Desiderius Erasmus
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According to the dialogue 'Alcibiades', ascribed to Plato , the Persian Magi were priests, who practiced a form of spiritual mysticism which was their religion.
