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• NICIAS
• NICIAS (d. 414 B.C.)

NICIAS (d. 414 B.C.)  , a soldier and statesman in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, inherited from his See also:

• FATHER

father Niceratus a considerable See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune in-vested mainly in the See also:

• SILVER

silver mines of See also:

• LAURIUM
• LAURIUM (Aabptov, mod. ERGASTIRI)

Laurium . See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

Evidence of his See also:

• WEALTH

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
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

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

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field he displayed extreme caution, and See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior to the See also:

• GREAT

great Sicilian expedition achieved a number of See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

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

• PART

part in the arrangement of the " See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

Peace of See also:

• NICIAS
• NICIAS (d. 414 B.C.)

Nicias," which terminated the first See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade of the Peloponnesian See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

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

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

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
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

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

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch of See also:

• ILL

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
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch's Nicias and Diod. xii .