Alcibiades
/ˌælsəˈbaɪədiz/
"Alcibiades" in a Sentence (2 examples)
In the course of the fifth century ten politicians were ostracised, the first being Cleisthenes himself, and the last (417 B.C.) Hyperbolus, who was made a scape-goat for Alcibiades and Nicias, the two rival leaders of the day.
Alcibiades was a happy union of coxcomb and conqueror; but there was in him a want of that repose, and of that superb self-reliance, which characterises the Roman.