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duous situation in the state, invited him to ac-
cept his former direction of their affairs both
foreign and domestic. He had lost his legi-
timate sons in the plague, and had suffered se-
verely in his family. He now procured the
repeal of a law, which he had himself enacted,
in favour of his illegitimate son, to whom he
gave his name; and shortly after, being infected
with the prevailing epidemic, he died in the
third year of the Peloponnesian war, A. C.
429? justly regretted by those for whom he
had laboured during a long and eventful pe-
riod. " Pericles undoubtedly deserved admi-
ration, not only for the candour and modera-
tion which he ever retained amidst the distrac-
tions of business and the rage of his enemies,
but for that noble sentiment, which led him
to think it his most excellent attainment, ne-
ver during the extent of his power to have
given way to envy or anger, nor to have nou-
rished an implacable hatred against his bit-
terest foe/'

To he continued.']