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Excerpt from Plutarch's Life of Pericles: With Introduction, Critical and Explanatory Notes and Indices The present edition of Plutarch's Life of Pericles for the use of English-speaking students was begun two years ago and has been prepared on the same lines as that of his Life of Themistocles (third Edition and I venture to express a hope that it may meet with as favourable a reception as its pre decessor, in spite of its shortcomings of which I am myself fully conscious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.