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wealth is found in the fact that he had no less than r000 slaves whom he hired out. He gravitated naturally to the aristocratic party, and was several times colleague with See also:

PERICLES (49o-429 B.C.)

Pericles in the aristocrats against the advanced party of See also:

CLEON (d. 422 B.C.)

Cleon (q.v.). He made use of his wealth both to buy off enemies (especially in-formers) and to acquire popularity by the magnificent way in which he discharged various public services, especially those connected with the See also:

state See also:

religion, of which he was a strong supporter. In the See also:

field he displayed extreme caution, and See also:

prior to the See also:

GREAT

great Sicilian expedition achieved a number of See also:

minor military successes. In 421 he took a prominent See also:

PART

part in the arrangement of the " See also:

Peace of Nicias," which terminated the first See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade of the Peloponnesian See also:

War (q.v.). He now entered with varying success upon a See also:

period of rivalry with See also:

ALCIBIADES (c. 450-404 B.c.)

Alcibiades, the details of which are largely matters of conjecture. So See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter was the strife that the See also:

OSTRACISM

ostracism of one seemed inevitable, but by a temporary See also:

COALITION (Lat. coalitio, the verbal substantive of coalescere, to grow together)

coalition they secured instead the banishment of the See also:

DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to lead, and Siµos, the people)

demagogue Hyperbolus (417). In 415 he was appointed with Alcibiades and Lamachus to command the Sicilian expedition, and, after the See also:

FLIGHT

flight of Alcibiades (q.v.) and the See also:

DEATH

death of Lamachus, was practically the See also:

SOLE (Solea)

sole See also:

COMMANDER

commander, the much more capable See also:

DEMOSTHENES

Demosthenes, who was sent to his aid, being apparently of comparatively little See also:

WEIGHT

weight. How far it is just to attribute to his excessive caution and his See also:

BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind faith in omens the disastrous failure it is difficult to say. At all events it is clear that the management of so great an enterprise was a task far beyond his See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers.

He was a See also:

man of conventional respect-ability and See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical piety, without the originality which was required to meet the crisis which faced him. His popularity with the aristocratic party in Athens is, however, strikingly shown by the lament of See also:

THUCYDIDES (OovavMns)

Thucydides over his death: " He assuredly, among all Greeks of my See also:

time, least deserved to come to so extreme a See also:

pitch of See also:

ill-fortune, considering his exact performance of established duties to the divinity " (vii. 86, See also:

GROTE, GEORGE (1794–1871)

Grote's version). Besides Thucydides see See also:

Plutarch's Nicias and Diod. xii.

End of Article: NICIAS (d. 414 B.C.)

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