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1434 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter A
   In sneaking of the house of Polytion, Pausanias evidently alludes to Alcibiades and his companions; but it may be remarked that an accusation against Alcibiades speaks of the house of Alcibiades as the place where the profanation took place, though it mentions Polytion as one of the accomplices. (28.35)

2. Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis Alc. 1, page 131
   Socrates And if anyone is found to be a lover of Alcibiades' body, he has fallen in love, not with Alcibiades, but with something belonging to Alcibiades? (19.71)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   He was an enemy of Alcibiades, and after the battle of Notium, went to Athens, for the purpose of laying accusations against Alcibiades, in consequence of which the latter was removed from his command. (19.40)

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1 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Edward II act 1, scene 4, line 391
   Mortimer senior The mightiest kings have had their minions,
   Great Alexander lovde Ephestion,
   The conquering Hercules for Hilas wept,
   And for Patroclus sterne Achillis droopt:
   And not kings onelie, but the wisest men,
   The Romaine Tullie loved wit="Q3">Octavius,
   Grave Socrates, wilde Alcibiades:
   Then let his grace, whose youth is flexible,
   And promiseth as much as we can wish,
   Freely enjoy that vaine light-headed earle,
   For riper yeares will weane him from such toyes.
   (1.50)

40 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Alcibiades
   Alcibiades, the Athenian general: . (10.48)

2. E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearean Grammar section 4, subsection 2, paragraph 27
   Where (whereas) Nicias did turne the Athenians from their
   purpose, Alcibiades againe (on the other hand) had a further reach, &c. So Rich. (8.09)

3. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section 3
   The banishment of Alcibiades, even his retort to the Senate at his banishment (III, v, 98, 99), and their embassy (V, i.) to Timon, praying him return to Athens and intercede for them with Alci biades, all have a pretty close parallel in Coriolanus. (7.29)

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1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices
   We meet with many practical men of action in Shakespeare's plays who are tolerably worthy of forming a contrast to the more poetical but less sensible hero, such as Fortinbras in Hamlet, Alcibiades in Timon of Athens, and Cassius in Julius Cæsar; but we may be allowed to doubt whether Octavius had any very real practical merit, and whether the appearance he had of it was not entirely due to the egregious folly and infatuation of his opponent, by force of contrast with which, the faintest signs of ability or wisdom would become magnified. (1.99)

6 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section DATE OF COMPOSITION, subsection Verity
   The banishment of Alcibiades, even his retort to the Senate at his banishment (III, v, 98, 99), and their embassy (V, i.) to Timon, praying him return to Athens and intercede for them with Alci biades, all have a pretty close parallel in Coriolanus. (4.94)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 2, commline 129
   In his comparison between him and Alcibiades he is in this matter more lenient to the latter. (3.10)

3. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 4, scene 7, commline 13
   The expression is found in various places in North's Plutarch, e. g., Alcibiades (ed. 1612, p. 210): ‘But he that had inwardly seene his naturall doings, and goodwill indeed lye naked before him, would certainly have vsed this common saying, This woman is no changeling’; and Agesilaus, p. 620: ‘For he was no changeling, but the selfe same man in state and condition that he was before he took his iourny. (2.94)

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3 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter W, entry 32717
   actor in London, appeared under name of Sydney or Sidney at Lyceum, 1834; played original John Johnson in Dickens's ‘Strange Gentleman’ at the St. James's, 1836; with Madame Vestris at Covent Garden, 1839; married Leonora Pincott, 1839 or 1841; gained reputation as Alcibiades Blague in Jerrold's ‘Gertrude's Cherries, or Waterloo in 1835’; at the Lyceum with the Keeleys, 1844, and later independently; played the hero of ‘Monsieur Jacques’ with Miss Mary Ann Stirling [q. v.] at the Olympic, 1847; with Kean at the Haymarket, 1848-9, playing clown in ‘Twelfth Night’ and Bassanio in ‘Merchant of Venice’; among his finest impersonations Achille Talma Dufard in the ‘First Night,’ 1849, and John Mildmay in Tom Taylor's ‘Still Waters run Deep,’ 1855; retired, 1872; produced original plays. [lxi. (3.62)

2. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 15, object 1
   It was at one time thought that the frieze of the Parthenon contained portraits of many of the leading persons of Athens who lived during the Peloponnesian war, particularly of Pericles, Phidias, Socrates, Alcibiades, Aspasia, &c.; but a careful examination leads to the belief that, in this respect, individuality of representation was not intended by the artists. (2.79)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter O, entry 23215
   dramatist; educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, but did not graduate; appeared unsuccessfully on the stage; his tragedy, ‘Alcibiades,’ acted at Dorset Garden Theatre, London, by the Bettertons and Mrs. Barry, 1675; gained great success with ‘Don Carlos,’ 1676; produced ‘Titus and Berenice’ and ‘The Cheats of Scapin’ (adaptations), 1677, ‘Friendship in Fashion’ (first comedy), 1678; patronised by the Duke of York and Lords Plymouth, Falkland, Middlesex, and Rochester; enlisted in the army in Holland, 1678, and received a commission, but soon returned; his first blank-verse tragedy, ‘The Orphan,’ produced successfully, 1680, ‘Soldier's Fortune’ (comedy), 1681; caricatured Shaftesbury as Antonio in ‘Venice Preserved,’ 1682, in which Betterton played Jaffier and Mrs. Barry Belvidera; his play, ‘The Atheist’ (comedy), performed 1684; also wrote prologues, epilogues, and a few poems; the manner of his death when in a state of destitution disputed. (1.84)

1 from American Memory: California

1. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 95
   By such were guided the genius that made Saint Just and Robespierre, Alcibiades and Byron, Caligula and Nero; and the greater the talents the greater the perversion of youthful fire and intelligence if misdirected. (1.75)