Alcibiades (the younger, defendant)
“the younger, defendant”
historical figure · 1 work · 1 mention · 9 anchored passages
Alcibiades · the son of Alcibiades · this man
in the texts
Against Alcibiades 1
The defendant in the speech, son of the famous Alcibiades, accused of refusing infantry duty, desertion, and cowardice, and of continuing his father's scandalous and treasonous reputation.
but Hipponicus assembled a number of witnesses and put away his wife, stating that this man had been entering his house, not as her brother, but as her husband.
when he ought to have been the most orderly of citizens, so as to excuse by his own life the offences of his father, he attempts to outrage others, as though he might succeed in imparting to his neighbors some tiny share of his own store of infamies, —and that, too, when he is the son of Alcibiades, who induced the Lacedaemoniains to fortify Decelea, who sailed to rouse the islands to revolt, who …
But Alcibiades was rash enough to mount, though he is no supporter of the people, nor had seen service in the cavalry before, nor is qualified for it now, nor had passed your scrutiny: