[1]: Plat. Alc. 1 121
[2]: 480 B.C.
[3]: 447 B.C.
[4]: They were first cousins, once removed.
[5]: Plat. Alc. 1 122
[6]: Cf. Aelian Var. Hist. 13.4
[7]: Wasps, 44 ff. The lisp of Alcibiades turned his r’s into l’s, and the play is on the Greek words κόραξ, raven, and κόλαξ, flatterer or craven.
[8]: Kock, Com. Att. Frag., i. p. 688
[9]: Athena threw away the flute because she saw her puffed and swollen cheeks reflected in the water of a spring. Marsyas the satyr was vanquished by Apollo in a musical contest, and was flayed alive.
[10]: An abusive oration of Antiphon the Rhamnusian against Alcibiades, cited in Athenaeus, p. 525b, was probably a fabrication and falsely attributed to him. It is not extant.
[11]: The iambic trimeter is of unknown authorship.
[12]: Plat. Phaedrus 255
[13]: Cf. Plat. Sym. 219e
[14]: Thuc. 6.15.4
[15]: 432-431 B.C. Cf. Plut. Nic. 4.4.
[16]: 424 B.C. Cf. Plat. Sym. 221a
[17]: i.e. 7000 drachmas, or francs.
[18]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 5.4-6
[19]: Dem. 21.145
[20]: In a speech of Alcibiades, Thuc. 6.16.2.
[21]: An Epinikion, or hymn of victory, like the extant odes of Pindar.
[22]: Isoc. 16, De bigis.
[23]: In his Demes (Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 281)
[24]: This has come down to us among the orations of Andocides (Andoc. 4). It is clearly a fictitious speech, put by its unknown author into the mouth of Phaeax (cf Andoc. 4.2 and 41).
[25]: Thuc. 8.73.3
[26]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 11
[27]: In 425 B.C. Cf. Plut. Nic. 7-8
[28]: Ratified in 421 B.C. Cf. Plut. Nic. 9
[29]: This parliamentary trick of Alcibiades is related also in Plut. Nic. 10.
[30]: 420 B.C.
[31]: 418 B.C.
[32]: 417 B.C.
[33]: 419 B.C.
[34]: Frogs, 1425; 1431-1432.
[35]: In the summer of 416. Cf. Thuc. 5.116.2-4.
[36]: A personification of the district of Nemea, in the games of which Alcibiades had been victorious. Cf. Paus. 1.22.7, with Frazer’s notes.
[37]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 12.1-2.
[38]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 13.5-6
[39]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 12.3-4
[40]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 13.2, 7.
[41]: About the middle of the summer of 415 B.C.
[42]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 14.3
[43]: Plut. Nic. 19.1
[44]: In Thuc. 6.53.2.
[45]: Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 385.
[46]: In September, 415 B.C.
[47]: A mountain citadel of Attica, about fourteen miles from Athens towards Boeotia, commanding the Athenian plain and the shortest routes to Euboea and Boeotia. It was occupied by the Spartans in the spring of 413 B.C.
[48]: The first part of the passage in quotation marks is an adaptation of an iambic trimeter by some unknown poet, which Plutarch uses entire in Plut. Morals 51c. Cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. (2) p. 907.
[49]: Electra, of Helen, in Eur. Orest. 129.
[50]: Cf. Plut. Lys. 22.4-6
[51]: With these words the two years which had elapsed since the flight of Alcibiades (Plut. Alc. 22) are passed over, so far as the Sicilian expedition is concerned. They are covered by the narrative of Plut. Nic. 15 foll.
[52]: During the winter of 412-411 B.C.
[53]: In the summer of 411 B.C., Phrynichus having been deposed from his command at Samos, and showing himself and ardent supporter of the revolutionary Four Hundred at Athens.
[54]: The name is wrong, and has crept into the story by an error which can be traced. Hermon was commander of the frontier guard stationed at Munychia. (Thuc. 8.92.5).
[55]: This illustrious commander, the son of Lycus, is to be distinguished from Thrasybulus, the son of Thraso (Plut. Nic. 6.1).
[56]: They usurped the power in June, of 411 B.C.; they fell in September of the same year.
[57]: Early in the spring of 410 B.C. The Athenians were at Cardia, a city of the Thracian Chersonese.
[58]: During the summer of 410 B.C., after the victory of Cyzicus.
[59]: In the spring of 409 B.C.
[60]: During the winter of 409-408 B.C.
[61]: From Samos, in the spring of 408 B.C.
[62]: Nearly three years before, in the late autumn of 411 B.C., after the overthrow of the Four Hundred.
[63]: Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, ii.(4) pp. 279 ff.
[64]: In the early summer of 408 B.C.
[65]: Towards the end of October, 408 B.C.
[66]: Cf. Plut. Nic. 10.1.
[67]: Not the illustrious commander (Plut. Nic. 26.6), who was the son of Lycus.
[68]: With these words Plutarch’s story leaps over the events of two and a half years, from the spring of 407 to the autumn of 405 B.C.
[69]: In his stronghold near Pactye (Xen. Hell. 2.1.25).
[70]: In the spring of 404 B.C., some eight months later.
[71]: See Plut. Nic. 15.4.