There are eight instances of Pericles in six chapters.
Normalized frequency of Pericles in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 22 · ¶ 48.
On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law
❯ sent to Athens to have some ordinance changed and was told by Pericles that it was forbidden to take down a tablet on which a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 29 · ¶ 10.
On Moderation
❯ as she, but not for a captain. Sophocles being joint praetor with Pericles, seeing accidentally a fine boy pass by: “O what a charming boy …
- Book 1 · Chapter 29 · ¶ 10.
On Moderation
❯ charming boy is that!” said he. “That might be very well,” answered Pericles, “for any other than a praetor, who ought not only to have …
- Book 1 · Chapter 51 · ¶ 1.
On the Vanity of Words
❯ answer of Thucydides, when inquiring of him, which was the better wrestler, Pericles, or he, he replied, that it was hard to affirm; for when …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 93.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
❯ It was, I think, Pericles, who being asked how he did: “You may judge,” says he, “by …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 93.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers
❯ any one ask me how I do, I may also answer, as Pericles did, “You may judge by this,” shewing my hand clutching six drachms …
- Book 3 · Chapter 4 · ¶ 5.
On Diversion
❯ some sort of public diversions; and the practice of military ones, which Pericles made use of in the Peloponnesian war, and a thousand others in …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 115.
On Experience
❯ by them. Theon, the philosopher, walked in his sleep, and so did Pericles’s servant, and that upon the tiles and top of the house. …