Alcibiades
Alcibiades — being in roman tradition.
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Satires (Persius)
- attribution: The youthful Alcibiades presumes to guide the state, trusting in his ancestry, beauty, and wheedling tongue despite having the lowest conceptions of life (Satires (Persius) > Satire IV > Summary of Satire IV)
"Puffed up by his ancestry, the youthful Alcibiades would fain guide the state. Knowledge of men and morals have come to him before his beard; trusting to his birth, his beauty, and his wheedling tongue, he advises the multitude on the most delicate points of right and policy."
- attribution: Alcibiades has none but the lowest conceptions of life despite advising the multitude on matters of right and policy (Satires (Persius) > Satire IV > Summary of Satire IV)
"Yet he has none but the lowest conceptions of life."
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