392 THE LIFE OF PERICLES.
would be better spoken of in some other booke. Now the troubles the Athenians felt immediatly after Pericles death, made them then lament the losse of so noble a member. For those who unpatiently did brooke his great authentic while.he liued, because it drowned their owne: when they came after his death to proue other speakers and gouernours, they were compelled then to confesse, that no mans nature liuing could be more moderate nor graue, with lenitie and mercy, then was his. And that most hated power, which in his life time they called monarchie, did then most plainely appeare vnto them, to haue bene the manifest ramper and bulwarke of the safety of their whole state and common-weale: such corruption and vice in gouernement of the state did then spring vp immediately after his death, which when he was aliue, he did euer suppresse and keepe vnder, in such sort, that either it did not appeare at all, or at the least it came not to that head and libertie, that such faults were committed, as were vnpossible to be remedied.