Alcibiades
οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love | Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving (Sophocles, Antigone 523)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ἀλκιβιάδης, -ου, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Alcĭbĭădes: is, m. (
I gen. Alcibiadi, Arn. adv. Gent. 6, p. 198; voc. Gr. Alcibiadē, Liv. 39, 36), = Ἀλκιβιάδης.
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Alcĭbĭădēs,¹² is, m.
1 Alcibiade [général athénien] : Cic. de Or. 2, 93 ; Div. 2, 143 ; Nep. Alc. 1, 1, etc. || -bĭădīus, a, um, d’Alcibiade : Arn. 6, 13
2 Lacédémonien qui prit part à la guerre contre Rome : Liv. 39, 35, etc.
