Nicias

[ nish-ee-uh s ]

/ ˈnɪʃ i əs /

died 413 b.c., Athenian statesman and general.

Example sentences from the Web for nicias

Nicias, poor honest man, might just as well have sate still; his speaking did but little good.

The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4) |Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nicias, of Athens, was celebrated for the delicacy with which he painted females.

Museum of Antiquity |L. W. Yaggy
The characters of Nicias and Laches are indicated by their opinions on the exhibition of the man fighting in heavy armour.

Laches |Plato
Eucrites rose, and placing his arm on the shoulder of Nicias, led him to the end of the hall.

Thais |Anatole France

And yet Nicias, would you allow that you are yourself a soothsayer, or are you neither a soothsayer nor courageous?

Laches |Plato

Nicias

/ (ˈnɪsɪəs) /

died 414 bc, Athenian statesman and general. He ended the first part of the Peloponnesian War by making peace with Sparta (421)