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  1. Athenian general. Handsome and dissolute, he
  2. became the archetype of capricious treachery
  3. for his military intrigues against his native
  4. state with Sparta and Persia; the Persians
  5. eventually had him assassinated. He was
  6. brought up by Pericles and was a friend of
  7. Socrates, whose reputation as a teacher
  8. suffered from the association.
  9.