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Ni⋅ci⋅as

  [nish-ee-uhs]
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–noun
died 413 b.c., Athenian statesman and general.
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Ni·ci·as   (nĭsh'ē-əs, nĭs'-)   
Athenian general and politician who arranged (421) a briefly observed truce with Sparta during the Peloponnesian War and was captured and killed during his command of the siege of Syracuse.
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