Alciphron
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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Meditations
A contemporary figure used as an example in the exercise of picturing people replaced by others.
and when you see Alciphron, picture Tropaeophorus;
History of the Peloponnesian War
An Argive who served as proxenus of the Lacedaemonians and, with Thrasyllus, persuaded Agis to agree to a truce before Mantinea.
But two individuals of the Argives, Thrasyllus, one of the five generals, and Alciphron, the proxenus of the Lacedaemonians, when the armies were now on the very point of engaging, went to Agis, and in a conference urged him not to bring on a battle;