was one of the greatest men that ever flourished in Greece. He was educated with all imaginable care; and beside other matters, he had for his tutors Zenon, Eleates, and Anaxagoras. He learned from the last of these to fear the gods without superstition, and to account for an eclipse from a natural cause. Many were unjust enough to suspect him of atheism, because he had perfectly studied the doctrine of that philosopher. He was a man of undoubted courage; and of such extraordinary eloquence, supported and improved by knowledge, that he gained almost as great an authority under a republican government as if he had been a monarch; but yet he could not escape the satirical strokes of the comic poets. His dissoluteness with women was one of the vices with which he was chiefly charged. He died the third year of the Peloponnesian war, after long sickness, which had weakened his understanding. Aspasia, Pericles's favourite, was a learned woman of Miletus; she taught Socrates rhetoric and politics. As Pericles cared not much for his wife, he willingly gave her up to another, and married Aspasia, whom he passionately loved.