Definitions for Nicias

Nicias Ni·ci·as

Spelling: [nish-ee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈnɪʃ i əs/

Nicias is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in Nicias (aciins).

Definitions for Nicias

noun

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

Examples for Nicias

The first of these periods lasted for ten years, down to the peace of Nicias.

In the mind of Nicias, enslaved by the grossest superstition, there was no room for doubt.

While Demosthenes argued, and Nicias demurred, Gylippus had not been idle.

The vigilance and activity of Nicias never relaxed for a moment.

I will tell you, Nicias and Laches, even at the risk of being tedious, how we came to think of this.

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

When Nicias had concluded his stirring appeal, the embarkation of the troops began.

On no other condition, added Nicias, would he undertake the command.

The second extends from the peace of Nicias to the massacre of Melos.

Yet for some time Nicias made no attempt to interrupt its progress.

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