. he Spartans and take refuge with Tis-saphernes (412), whose favour he soon his influence Tissaphernes desertedthe Spartans and professed his willingness toassist the Athenians, who accordingly recalledAlcibiades from banishment in 411. He didnot immediately return to Athens, but remainedabroad for the next 4 years, during which theAthenians under his command gained the vic-tories of Cynossema, Abydos, and Cyzicus, andgot possession of Chalcedon and 407 he returned to Athens, where he wasreceived with gre
. he Spartans and take refuge with Tis-saphernes (412), whose favour he soon his influence Tissaphernes desertedthe Spartans and professed his willingness toassist the Athenians, who accordingly recalledAlcibiades from banishment in 411. He didnot immediately return to Athens, but remainedabroad for the next 4 years, during which theAthenians under his command gained the vic-tories of Cynossema, Abydos, and Cyzicus, andgot possession of Chalcedon and 407 he returned to Athens, where he wasreceived with great enthusiasm, and wasappointed commander-in-chief of all the landand sea forces. But the defeat at Notium, occa-sioned during his absence by the imprudence ofhis lieutenant, Antiochus, furnished his enemieswith a handle against him, and he was super-seded in his command ( 406). He nowwent into voluntary exile to his fortifieddomain at Bisanthe in the Thracian Cherso-nesus, where he made war on the neighbouringThracians. Before the fatal battle of Aegos-. ALCINOUS Potami (405), he gave an ineffectual warningto the Athenian generals. After the fall ofAthens (404), he was condemned to banishment,and took refuge with Pharnabazus; he was aboutto proceed to the court of Artaxerxes, when onbnight his house was surrounded by a band ofarmed men, and set on fire. He rushed outsword in hand, but fell, pierced with arrows(404). The assassins were probably either em-ployed by the Spartans, or (according to Plu-tarch) by the brothers of a lady whom Alcibiadeshad seduced. He left a son by his wife Hip-parete, named Alcibiades, who never distin-guished himself. It was for him that Isocrateswrote the speech riep! tov Zevyovs. (Plut. Alcib.;Nepos, Alcib.; Thuc. ; Xen. Hell. i. 11;Diod. xiii.; Andoc. in Ale. de Myst.\ Isocr. deBigis.) Alcidamas (A^KiSdfias), a Greek rhetorician,of Elaea in Aeolis, in Asia Minor, was a pupil ofGorgias, and resided at Athens between 432and 411. Hi
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