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Pericles autem, felicissimis naturae incrementis sub Anaxagora praeceptore summo studio perpolitis instructus, liberis Athenarum ceruicibus iugum seruitutis inposuit: egit enim illam urbem et uersauit arbitrio suo, cumque aduersus uoluntatem populi loqueretur, iucunda nihilo minus et popularis eius uox erat. itaque ueteris comoediae maledica lingua, quamuis potentiam uiri perstringere cupiebat, tamen in labris hominis melle dulciorem leporem fatebatur habitare inque animis eorum, qui illum audierant, quasi aculeos quosdam relinqui praedicabat. fertur quidam, cum admodum senex primae contioni Periclis adulescentuli interesset idemque iuuenis Pisistratum decrepitum iam contionantem audisset, non temperasse sibi quo minus exclamaret caueri illum ciuem oportere, quod Pisistrati orationi simillima eius esset oratio. nec hominem aut aestimatio eloqui aut morum augurium fefellit. quid enim inter Pisistratum et Periclen interfuit, nisi quod ille armatus, hic sine armis tyrannidem gessit?
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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