So long, then, as Pericles held the headship1 of the People, the affairs of the state went better, but when Pericles was dead they became much worse. For the People now for the first time adopted a head who was not in good repute with the respectable classes, whereas in former periods those always continued to lead the people.
1 See note on Aristot. Ath. Pol. 2.3.