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Plutarch, 46-120?

"of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls"

When the temple of the god no
longer afforded him a sanctuary, he took refuge, as it were, at a
mightier altar, freeing himself from arms and soldiers, and
laughing to scorn the cruelty of Antipater.

ALCIBAIDES
Alcibiades, it is supposed, was descended from Ajax, by his
father's side; and by his mother's side from Alcmaeon. Dinomache,
his mother, was the daughter of Megacles. His father (Clinias)
having fitted out a galley at his own expense, gained great honor
in the seafight at Artemisium, and was afterwards slain in the
battle of Coronea, fighting against the Boeotians. The friendship
which Socrates felt for him has much contributed to his fame; and
though we have no account from any writer concerning the mother of
Nicias or Demosthenes, of Lamachus or Phormion, of Thrasybulus or
Theramenes, notwithstanding these were all illustrious men of the
same period, yet we know even the nurse of Alcibiades, that her
country was Lacedaemon, and her name Amycla; and that Zopyrus was
his teacher and attendant; the one being recorded by Antisthenes,
and the other by Plato.
It is not, perhaps, material to say anything of the beauty of
Alcibiades, only that it bloomed with him in all the ages of his
life, in his infancy, in his youth, and in his manhood; and, in
the peculiar character becoming to each of these periods, gave
him, in every one of them a grace and a charm.


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