. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. cal sideof the older alchemy, and carried it to adegree of extravagance before of useful work, they compiledmystical trash into books, and fatheredthem on Hermes, Aristotle, AlbertusMagnus, Paracelsus, and other reallygreat men. These visionaries formedthemselves into Rosicrucian societies andother secret associations. ALCIBIADES, son of Clinias and Dei-nomache, was born in Athens about450 B. C. He lost his father in thebattle of Coronea (447), so was bro
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. cal sideof the older alchemy, and carried it to adegree of extravagance before of useful work, they compiledmystical trash into books, and fatheredthem on Hermes, Aristotle, AlbertusMagnus, Paracelsus, and other reallygreat men. These visionaries formedthemselves into Rosicrucian societies andother secret associations. ALCIBIADES, son of Clinias and Dei-nomache, was born in Athens about450 B. C. He lost his father in thebattle of Coronea (447), so was broughtup in the house of his kinsman friend Socrates was unable to re-strain his love of luxury and dissipation,which found ample means of gratifica-tion in the wealth that accrued to himby his union with Hipparete. He firstbore arms in the expedition against Po- ALCIBIADES 99 ALCOCK tidaea (432), where his life was savedby Socrates—a debt which eight yearslater he repaid at Delium, by saving,in his turn, the life of the seems to have taken no part inpolitical matters till after the death of. ALCIBIADES the demagogue Cleon, when Niciasbrought about a 50 years treaty ofpeace between Athens and , jealous of the esteem inwhich Nicias was held, persuaded theAthenians to ally themselves with thepeople of Argos, Elds, and Mantinea(420). It was at his suggestion that,in 415, they engaged in the Sicilian ex-pedition, which he commanded, alongwith Nicias and Lanoachus. But whilepreparations were making, one night allthe statues of Hermes in Athens weremutilated. Alcibiades enemies threw onhim the blame of the sacrilege, but post-poned the impeachment until he had setsail, when they stirred up the peopleagainst him to such a degree that he wasrecalled in order to stand his trial. Onthe voyage home, he landed in Italy,and thence crossed to Lacedaemon, wherehe soon became a favorite. He inducedthe Lacedaemonians to send assistance toSyracuse
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