Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 96
or in Musical Skill. When the orators, whosided with Thucydides and his party, were at one timecrying out, as their custom was, against Pericles, as onewho squandered away the public money and madehavoc of the state revenues, he rose in the open as-sembly and put the question to the people,… … 12 Leaders of Men stand in my name. When they heard him say thus,whether it were out of a surprise to see the greatnessof his spirit, or out of emulation of the glory of theworks, they cried aloud, bidding him to spend on, andlay out what he thought fit from the public purse,and to spare no cost,…
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