1. Thucydides (not to be confused with the historian, who may have been a relation) was
the leading opponent of Pericles in the mid fifth century. Aristides, renowned for his honesty and plain dealing, was a general and statesman prominent in the wars against the Persians (490–479), and architect of the Delian league (an anti-Persian alliance of Greek cities formed in 478 and administered from the sacred island of Delos).

2. Cf. p. 69 n. 2.