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downe, and couered his head close, determining to starue himself to death with hunger. Pericles vnder-standing this, ran presently to him as a man halfe cast away, and prayed him as earnestly as he could, that he would dispose him selfe to Hue, being not onely sory for him, but for himselfe also, that he should loose so faithfull and wise a counseller, in matters of state and gouernement. Then Anaxagoras shewed his face, and told him: O Pericles, those that will see by the light of a lampe, must put oyle to it, to make the light burne. Now began the Lacedsemonians to graw iealous of the greatnesse of the Athenians, wherefore Pericles to make the Athenians hearts greater, and so draw their minds to great enterprises: set downe an order they should send ambassadours to perswade al the Grecians (in what part soeuer they dwelt in Evrope, or Asia, as well the litle as the great cities) to send their deputies vnto Athens, to the generall assembly that should be holden there to take order for the temples of <£he gods which the barbarous people had burnt, and touching the sacrifices they had vowed for the presentation of Grece, when they gaue battel1 vpon them: and touching sea matters also, that euery man might saile in safety where he would, and that all might Hue together in good peace and loue one with another. To performe this commission, twenty persons were sent of this ambasiate, euery one of them being fifty yeares of age and vpward. Whereof fiue of them went to the Dorians, dwelling in Asia, and to the inhabitants of the lies, eue vnto the Isles of Lesbos, & of the Rhodes. Fiue other went through al the country of Hellespont, & of Thracia, vnto the city of Bizantivm. Other fiue were commanded to go into Bceotia, into Phocides, and through al Peloponnesvs, & from thence by the country of the Locrians, into the vpland country ioyning to it, vntil they came into the country of Acarnania, and of Ambracia. And the