Ostracism

and yet not only was Cimon himself an Olympic victor;

for the law which he framed violates the oath of the People and Council.

we are the only Greeks to observe it, and no other state is prepared to imitate us.

Pericles, falling short of this lavishness in his property, on the advice of Damonides of Oa (who was thought to be the prompter of most of Pericles' measures—which is also why they ostracized him later), since he was worsted in his private means, devised giving the many their own;

In the sixth presidency, in addition to what has been said, they put to the vote the question of the holding of an ostracism, whether it seems good to hold one or not, and accusations of sycophants, both of Athenians and of metics, up to three of each, and any case where a man has promised something to the people and not performed it.

(he happened to have been ostracised, and though he had a residence at Argos, used to travel about to the rest of the Peloponnese,) they sent with the Lacedaemonians, who were very ready to join in the pursuit, certain men who were told to bring him wherever they might fall in with him.