Alcibiades

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. IV. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1916.

As regards the beauty of Alcibiades, it is perhaps unnecessary to say aught, except that it flowered out with each successive season of his bodily growth, and made him, alike in boyhood, youth and manhood, lovely and pleasant. The saying of Euripides,[*](Cf. Aelian Var. Hist. 13.4 ) that

beauty’s autumn, too, is beautiful,

is not always true. But it was certainly the case with Alcibiades, as with few besides, because of his excellent natural parts.