He once told his beleaguered countryman "Don't show yourselves to be doubly inferior to your ancestors, who took the empire --
He once told his beleaguered countryman "Don't show yourselves to be doubly inferior to your ancestors, who took the empire -- Remember that it is more shameful to lose what you have than to fail in an attempt to get more," thereby encouraging them to weather an outbreak of plague that would eventually kill him as well. This "Last Speech," along with the "Funeral Oration," is among the factors Thucydides cited when he praised this statesman as having maintained a "government by first man" when "Athens was in name a democracy." FTP, name the long‑term Athenian ‘general' who, before leading his city into the Peloponnesian War, had presided over the decades of its greatest prosperity, democracy, and cultural achievement.
He once told his beleaguered countryman "Don't show yourselves to be doubly inferior to your ancestors, who took the empire --
Pericles