The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 03
CHAPTER XXXI
THE PLAGUE; AND THE DEATH OF PERICLES (431-429 B.C.) 535
The oration of Pericles, 535. Thucydides’ account of the plague, 539. Last public speech of Pericles, 545. The end and glory of Pericles, 548. Wilhelm Oncken’s estimate of Pericles, 551.