itaque vir amplissimus et prudentissimus, suo consilio defectus, puerili usus est, atque id egit ut Athenienses, finitimo implicati bello, rationibus exigendis non vacarent.
And so the great and sagacious Pericles, unable to advise himself, took the advice of a boy: he so managed that the Athenians became involved in a war close to home and had no time to demand accounts.
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