Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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Thucydides sunk at last under the influence
of his adversary, and was banished by ostra-
cism. By this event Pericles became the
undisputed master of Attica, its resources, its
colonies, and tributary states. From this mo-
ment his conduct was entirely altered. No
longer the familiar and obsequious friend of
every one whose vote and interest he desired,
no longer the free republican, he withdrew
much more from public notice, and devoted
himself to the management of that extraordi-
nary authority, which he had acquired by his
talents and his virtues, and continued to hold
for the benefit of his fellow-citizens.

With immense treasures at his command, he
remained untainted by avarice, and unosten-
tatious in his domestic expenditure. He pos-
sessed most eminently the art of ruling; and
aborbing all the real influence which was no-
minally vested in the annual archons, he was
in fact an autocrat in a republic for nearly
forty years. Prudent in his policy, and careful
of the lives of his army, he seldom sustained a
defeat in the repeated contests with the Pelo-
ponnesians which the Spartan rivalry excited,