The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 03

CHAPTER XXXI

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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.