kritolaus

Updated: June 12, 2025

But Perikles feared to make himself too common even with the people, and only addressed them after long intervals not speaking upon every subject, and, not constantly addressing them, but, as Kritolaus says, keeping himself like the Salaminian trireme for great crises, and allowing his friends and the other orators to manage matters of less moment.

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives, Volume I