Cosmo, unquestionably the greatest and most successful citizen that ever lived,for he almost rivalled Pericles in position, if not in talent, while he surpassed him in good fortune,was, during his lifetime, the virtual sovereign of the most enlightened and wealthy and powerful republic that had existed in modern times.

So great was the power of Pericles with the common people.

In antiquity, there was no respect for the sex, even when Aspasia enthralled Pericles by the fascinations of blended intellect and beauty; but there was respect in the feudal ages, when women were unlettered and unpolished.

I remember Pericles in his famous Oration at the Funeral of those Athenian young Men who perished in the Samian Expedition, has a Thought very much celebrated by several Ancient Criticks, namely, That the Loss which the Commonwealth suffered by the Destruction of its Youth, was like the Loss which the Year would suffer by the Destruction of the Spring.

Thucydides represents the constitution under Pericles as a democracy in name, but really an aristocracy, because the government was all in the hands of one leading citizen.

How, then, can one put any faith in Idomeneus, when he accuses Pericles of procuring the assassination of his friend and colleague Ephialtes, because he was jealous of his reputation?

This Damon, it seems, was a sophist of the highest order, who used the name of music to conceal this accomplishment from the world, but who really trained Pericles for his political contests just as a trainer prepares an athlete for the games.

" Our author's use of the word "portage" is even more perplexing than Shakespeare's; "Thy portion" would give excellent sense; but, with the passage of Pericles before us, we cannot suppose that there is a printer's error.

As we are accustomed to look to Greek Art of the time of Pericles for purity of style and perfection of taste, so do we naturally expect the gradual demoralisation of art in its transfer to the great Roman Empire.

We think Pericles of hers the best, and Othello of minebut I hope all have some good.

Ascendency of Pericles at Athens.[Est] See "PERICLES RULES IN ATHENS," ii, 12.

Thus the Dastan-Shah whiles away time until about 8 p.m. when the club breaks up and the faded Aspasia helps her fractious Pericles down the rotten staircase and out into the night.

The flourishing period of Greek architecture was during the period from Pericles to Alexander,one hundred and thirteen years.