Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus, 1.3.4

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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4albeit the amount of his property was not great, but about six talents. And Pericles, though he had opportunities, owing to his authority and influence, to enrich himself from obsequious allies and kings beyond all possible estimates, nevertheless kept himself pre-eminently superior to bribes and free from corruption.

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