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Περικλῆς

Περικλῆς Plutarch
33.7 as these anapaestic verses of HermippusFrom his Moirai, or Fates . Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. pp. 236 f. show:— Thou king of the Satyrs, why pray wilt thou not Take the spear for thy weapon, and stop the dire talk With the which, until now, thou conductest the war. While the soul of a Teles is in thee? If the tiniest knife is but laid on the stone To give it an edge, thou gnashest thy teeth, As if bitten by fiery Cleon.
34.1 However, Pericles was moved by no such things, but gently and silently underwent the ignominy and the hatred, and, sending out an armament of a hundred ships against the Peloponnesus, did not himself sail with it, but remained behind, keeping the city under watch and ward and well in hand, until the Peloponnesians withdrew. Then, by way of soothing the multitude, who, in spite of their enemies’ departure, were distressed over the war, he won their favour by distributions of moneys and proposed allotments of conquered lands; the Aeginetans, for instance, he drove out entirely, and parcelled out their island among the Athenians by lot. And some consolation was to be had from what their enemies suffered.

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