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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,[*] that

beautys 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.

Even the lisp that he had became his speech, they say, and made his talk persuasive and full of charm. Aristophanes notices this lisp of his in the verses wherein he ridicules Theorus:—

Sosias
Then Alcibiades said to me with a lisp, said he,
Cwemahk Theocwus? What a cwavens head he has!
Xanthias
That lisp of Alcibiades hit the mark for once!
[*] And Archippus, ridiculing the son of Alcibiades, says:
He walks with utter wantonness, trailing his long robe behind him, that he may be thought the very picture of his father, yes,
He slants his neck awry, and overworks the lisp.
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