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Alcibiades (?449-404 B.C.) Athenian politician and general. "He was singularly endowed by nature, being possessed of the most fascinating eloquence and having in a rare degree the ability to win and to govern men. Yet in all his transactions be allowed himself to be directed by external circumstances, without having any fixed principles of conduct." (The New International Encyclopaedia Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 350-351.)
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 21. (from an ancient bust)
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