4. Ephialtes was a democratic politician. His measures of 462–1 deprived the Areopagus of political powers, and it then retained only certain judicial functions, notably as the court for cases of deliberate homicide. Pericles (495–429) was in 462–1 an associate of Ephialtes. ‘Leader of the people’ = ‘demagogue’: see pp. 310 and 324. n. 3.