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| | Alcibiades Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Thus early deprived of his father's control, possessed of great personal beauty and the heir to great wealth, which was increased by his marriage, he showed himself self-willed, capricious and passionate, and indulged in the most insolent behaviour. |
 | | Alcibiades had great admiration of Socrates, and once said: "His nature is so beautiful, golden, divine, and wonderful within that everything he commands surely must be obeyed, even like the voice of good." As the reward for his bravery, the wealthy Hipponicus bestowed upon him the hand of his daughter. |
 | | But in a few months he had lost the confidence of the Spartans, and at the instigation of Agis II, whose personal hostility he had excited (it was rumoured that Agis' newborn child was actually conceived by Alcibiades), an order was sent for his execution. |
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