pericles's

Updated: June 5, 2025

But Pericles's friends, gathering in a body, forced him to retire as a banished man. For which cause also Pericles seems to have exerted himself more in that than in any battle, and to have been conspicuous above all for his exposure of himself to danger. All Cimon's friends, also, to a man, fell together side by side, whom Pericles had accused with him of taking part with the Lacedaemonians.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

A saying of Thucydides, the son of Melesias, stands on record, spoken by him by way of pleasantry upon Pericles's dexterity.

Plutarch - The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch : being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls

But I was doing, I sometimes think, a more real thing than when I try to clothe Athens again with the glory of Pericles's age or seek in long lost quarries for my prose style. I envied divine Hadrian his faith in a restoration. His pride in Rome seemed really equalled by his passionate sentiment for Athens and his determination to make her once more the nurse of the arts.

Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson - Roads from Rome