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    Plutarch, Lives (ed. Bernadotte Perrin)

    Periklês

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    XVI. kaitoi tên dunamin autou saphôs men ho Thoukudidês diêgeitai, kakoêthôs de paremphainousin hoi kômikoi, Peisistratidas men neous tous peri auton hetairous kalountes, auton d' apomosai mê turannêsein keleuontes, hôs asummetrou pros dêmokratian kai baruteras peri auton ousês huperochês: [2] ho de Têlekleidês paradedôkenai phêsin autôi tous Athênaious

    poleôn te phorous autas te poleis, tas men dein, tas d' analuein,
    laïna teichê, ta men oikodomein, ta d' epeita palin kataballein,
    spondas, dunamin, kratos, eirênên, plouton t' eudaimonian te.
    Telecleides; Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 220
    kai tauta kairos ouk ên oud' akmê kai charis anthousês eph' hôrai politeias, alla tessarakonta men etê prôteuôn en Ephialtais kai Leôkratais kai Murônidais kai Kimôsi kai Tolmidais kai Thoukudidais, [3] meta de tên Thoukudidou katalusin kai ton ostrakismon ouk elattô tôn pentekaideka etôn diênekê kai mian ousan en tais eniausiois stratêgiais archên kai dunasteian ktêsamenos, ephulaxen heauton analôton hupo chrêmatôn, kaiper ou pantapasin argôs echôn pros chrêmatismon, alla ton patrôion kai dikaion plouton, hôs mêt' ameloumenos ekphugoi mête polla pragmata kai diatribas ascholoumenôi parechoi, sunetaxen eis oikonomian hên ôieto rhaistên kai akribestatên einai. [4] tous gar epeteious karpous hapantas athroous epiprasken, eita tôn anankaiôn hekaston ex agoras ônoumenos diôikei ton bion kai ta peri tên diaitan. hothen ouch hêdus ên enêlikois paisin oude gunaixi dapsilês chorêgos, all' ememphonto tên ephêmeron tautên kai sunêgmenên eis to akribestaton dapanên, oudenos, hoion en oikiai megalêi kai pragmasin aphthonois, perirreontos, alla pantos men analômatos, pantos de lêmmatos di' arithmou kai metrou badizontos. [5] ho de pasan autou tên toiautên sunechôn akribeian heis ên oiketês, Euangelos, hôs heteros oudeis eu pephukôs ê kateskeuasmenos hupo tou Perikleous pros oikonomian.

    apaidonta men oun tauta tês Anaxagorou sophias, eige kai tên oikian ekeinos exelipe kai tên chôran aphêken argên kai mêloboton hup' enthousiasmou kai megalophrosunês, [6] ou tauton d' estin, oimai, theôrêtikou philosophou kai politikou bios, all' ho men anorganon kai aprosdeê tês ektos hulês epi tois kalois kinei tên dianoian, tôi d' eis anthrôpeias chreias anamignunti tên aretên estin hou genoit' an ou tôn anankaiôn monon, alla kai tôn kalôn ho ploutos, hôsper ên kai Periklei boêthounti pollois tôn penêtôn. [7] kai mentoi ge ton Anaxagoran auton legousin ascholoumenou Perikleous ameloumenon keisthai sunkekalummenon êdê gêraion apokarterounta: prospesontos de tôi Periklei tou pragmatos ekplagenta thein euthus epi ton andra kai deisthai pasan deêsin, olophuromenon ouk ekeinon, all' heauton, ei toiouton apolei tês politeias sumboulon. ekkalupsamenon oun ton Anaxagoran eipein pros auton: “ô Perikleis, kai hoi tou luchnou chreian echontes elaion epicheousin.”


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    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [251-471]

    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    6, 131, 2 [BOOK VI]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    teleclides [Teleclīdes]

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    Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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