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- λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang upThis Nikias was effeminate.
- ν389ΝικίαςNikias, Nicias… were taken alive, and after being pursued they were captured. Nikias and Demosthenes were led off as prisoners of war, but the Sicilians killed them.
- μ534Μελλονικιᾶνto dither like Nikias… the time for us to doze, or to dither like Nikias". For Nikias the son of Alkibiades [was the man] who kept putting off his departure for Sicily. For he was slow in the …
- λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… to hardships. For during the Peloponnesian War the Athenians dispatched Nikias against everyone and laid siege to them so strenuously as to make them perish by starvation. And in the first year Nikias brought …
- μ1416Μὺ μῦ μὺ μῦ μὺ μῦ μὺ μῦ μὺ μῦ μὺ μῦmu mu - mu mu - mu mu - mu mu - mu mu - mu muThey [sc. the "slaves" Demosthenes and Nikias] are saying this as if lamenting. It is an iamb, with the first u short but the second long.
- λ81Λαμάχων(from) Lamachoses… to Sicily they elected him general together with Alkibiades and Nikias. He was fond of warfare. Aristophanes [writes]: "I have made treaties for myself and escaped from businesses and battles and Lamachoses. For it …
- κ1731ΚλέωνKleon, Cleon… a tanner; [the man] who was the political opponent of Nikias the son of Nikeratos. Having accomplished many things, he was later sent off into Thrace, as general, and won over many cities. After …
- α3561Ἀποστοματίζεινto recite, to dictate… remember well." Thucydides in [book] 7 [writes]: "and those from Nicias came into Athens and they reported orally as many things as he told them." Plato in Theaetetus [writes]: "but what indeed are words? …
- λ858ΛυσίαςLysias… Kephalos; a Syracusan, an orator, pupil of T[e]isias and of Nikias, one of the 10 orators [sc. selected as the best] with Demosthenes. He was born in Athens, after Kephalos had migrated there [sc. …