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Alcibiades

Alcibiades · m

An Athenian general in the time of the Peloponnesian war

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Alcĭbĭădes — Lewis & Short

Alcĭbĭădes, is, m. (

I gen. Alcibiadi, Arn. adv. Gent. 6, p. 198; voc. Gr. Alcibiadē, Liv. 39, 36), = *)alkibia/dhs.
I An Athenian general in the time of the Peloponnesian war, distinguished for his beauty, wealth, and natural endowments, as well as for his changing fortunes and want of fixed principle, Cic. de Or. 2, 22; id. Tusc. 3, 22 (his life, v. in Plut., Nep., and Just.).—Hence, * Alcĭbĭădēus, a, um, adj., pertaining to him, Arn. 6, p. 198.—
II The name of a later Greek in the time of the war with the Romans, Liv. 39, 36.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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