6. But there are times when he would throw in the towel themselves so you’re able to his flatterers, who promised your all kinds of delights, and then he would give Socrates the fresh slip immediately after which make it themselves actually getting hunted off from the your such a runaway slave.
Certainly Alcibiades was carefree and easily led into pleasure; that lawless self-indulgence in his daily life, which Thucydides mentions, step 1 gives reason to suspect this. But the weakness which his tempters played upon most of all was his love of distinction and his desire for fame, and in this way they pressed him into embarking on ambitious projects before he was ready for them; they assured him that once he entered public life he would not merely eclipse the other generals and politicians, but even surpass the power and prestige which Pericles had enjoyed in the eyes of the Greeks. (more…)