41.4
When he had fixed the contributions that the Greeks were to pay, he returned poorer by exactly as much as he spent on his journey.In 478-477 B.C. Aristeides, because of his reputation for fairness, was chosen to determine the initial contribution which each member of the confederacy of Delos should make to the common cause. Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Aristeides, chap. xxiv. (333 C); Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9.
41.5
Aeschylus Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes, 592; Plutarch quotes the lines also in whole or in part in Moralia, 32 D, and 88 B, and Life of Aristeides, chap. iii. (320 B). wrote referring to Amphiaraus, His wish is not to seem, but be, the best,On account of the reading δίκαιος in the Life of Aristeides it has been thought that the actor who spoke the words may have substituted the Just for the best when he saw Aristeides in the audience. Reaping the deep-sown furrow of his mind In which all goodly counsels have their root. And as these words were spoken all looked towards Aristeides.
PERICLES Athenian general and statesman, fifth century B.C.
42.1
Whenever Pericles was about to take command of the army, as he was donning his general’s cloak, he used to say to himself, Take care, Pericles; you are about to command free-born men who are both Greeks and Athenians. Cf. Moralia, 620 C and 813 D.