Thou hadst not else, in spite of years, perfumed thyself.1 Ion says that he had the most astonishingly great thoughts of himself for having subjected the Samians; whereas Agamemnon was all of ten years in taking a barbarian city, he had in nine months time reduced the foremost and most powerful people of Ionia.
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On Elpinice's saying this, Pericles, with a quiet smile, it is said, quoted to her the verse of Archilochus:—
1 That is, ‘thou art too old to meddle in affairs.’ Cf. chapter x. 5.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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