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After Pericles' death he emerged as the primary rival of Cleon and his war party. He was a moderate democrat, not an oligarch, and he wanted peace with Sparta. In 421 he arranged the Peace of Nicias. When the expedition to Syracuse was urged by Alcibiades , Nicias tried to discourage it, but Athens nevertheless made him commander, along with Alcibiades and Lamachus.

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