Chapter XXII: Book III

‘That is Alcibiades. In the flower of his manly prime, in the
bloom of his wonderful talents ... there stands the great moral
antithesis, the living type of the Athenian character—the
warrior, the fop—the statesman, the voluptuary—the demagogue,
the patriot—the orator ... the lisper on whose utterance
assemblies hung—the spendthrift, whose extravagance did honour
to his native land—the man who would have made his country
mistress of the world....’—SIR D. K. SANDFORD.