Note 47 — Chapter XXX · THE OUTBREAK OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
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“Cleon,” says Thucydides, “attacked him with great acrimony, making use of the general resentment against Pericles, as a means to increase his own popularity, as Hermippus testifies in these verses:
“‘Sleeps then, thou king of Satyrs, sleeps the spear, While thundering words make war? Why boast thy prowess, Yet shudder at the sound of sharpened swords, Spite of the flaming Cleon?’”