Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin Marbles: With an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (London, 1837)

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with which the Spartans beheld the maritime
predominance of the Athenians, Pericles com-
manded the army, and was defeated, notwith-
standing great personal valour. To satisfy
the people, he proposed a decree for recalling
Cimon, by whom a peace was effected with
Lacedaemon. After the death of Cimon, his
brother-in-law Thucydides, the orator, was
opposed as a check to the increasing power of
Pericles. Between these two ambitious rivals
the city was divided into an aristocratical and
democratical opposing party; and, with the
latter Pericles strove to ingratiate himself by
every practicable method. To clear the place
of useless and obnoxious persons, he settled
colonies in Asia Minor, Thrace, and Italy.
" But that," says Plutarch, " which was the
chief delight and ornament of Athens and the
wonder of strangers, and which alone serves
to prove that the boasted power and opulence
of ancient Greece is not an idle tale, was the
magnificence of the temples and public edU
fices." Against the reproaches of his enemies,
who accused him of wasting the public trea-
sure upon expensive buildings, be advanced