pericles

[US]/ˈperɪˌkli:z/
[UK]/ˈpɛrɪˌkliz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. sinaunang estadista ng Atenas; Pericles

Real-world Examples

But there was one politician who avoided this fate. His name was Pericles.

Ngunit may isang politiko na nakaiwas sa kapalaran na ito. Ang pangalan niya ay Pericles.

Source: A Brief History of the World

Back in the time of Pericles, what did the winners of the Olympics wear?

Noong panahon ni Pericles, ano ang suot ng mga nagwagi sa Olympics?

Source: Connection Magazine

War was the life of the city and its pride, as Pericles argued.

Ang digmaan ang buhay ng lungsod at pinagmamalaki nito, ayon kay Pericles.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

It killed Pericles, the leader of Athens, in the autumn of that very same year, 429 BCE.

Namatay si Pericles, ang pinuno ng Athens, sa taglagas ng taong iyon, 429 BCE.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

Of course, these words bring to mind Pericles' funeral oration over the war dead as it is recorded in Thucydides.

Siyempre, ang mga salitang ito ay nagpapaalala sa libing ni Pericles para sa mga namatay sa digmaan tulad ng nakatala sa Thucydides.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

We had a German king who came to Greece from Bavaria, and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles.

Mayroon kaming isang German na hari na nagmula sa Greece mula sa Bavaria, at nagpasya ang mga German na bubuhayin muli ang Athens ni Pericles.

Source: BBC documentary "A Hundred Treasures Talk About the Changes of Time"

These values Pericles says enables Athens to provide a shining beacon of freedom and decency to the Greek world and now to our own times too.

Ang mga halagang ito, ayon kay Pericles, ay nagbibigay-daan sa Athens na magbigay ng isang kumikinang na ilaw ng kalayaan at kagandahang-asal sa mundo ng Greek at ngayon sa ating panahon.

Source: History

You also had statesmen like Pericles, whose famous funeral oration brags about the golden democracy of Athens with rhetoric that wouldn’t sound out of place today.

Mayroon ka ring mga estadista tulad ni Pericles, na ang kanyang sikat na libing ay pinagyayaman ang ginintuang demokrasya ng Athens sa retorika na hindi magiging out of place ngayon.

Source: World History Crash Course

We talk about the " golden age of comedy" – the period of time when the best comedies were written – or the " golden age of Greek literature, " during the time of Pericles, say.

Pinag-uusapan natin ang "ginintuang panahon ng komedya" - ang panahon kung kailan isinulat ang pinakamahusay na mga komedya - o ang "ginintuang panahon ng panitikan ng Greek," sa panahon ni Pericles, halimbawa.

Source: 2015 English Cafe

FINE. TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY WITH A CAPITAL T AND THAT RHYMES WITH P AND THAT STANDS FOR PELOPONNESE. Pericles’s funeral oration comes from a later war, The Peloponnesian War, a thirty year conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans.

MAAYOS. PROBLEMA DITO SA RIVER CITY NA MAY MALAKING T AT IYON AY TUMUTUGMA SA P AT IYON AY NANGANGahulugang PELOPONNESE. Ang libing ni Pericles ay nagmula sa isang mas huling digmaan, ang Digmaang Peloponnesian, isang tatlumpung taong tunggalian sa pagitan ng mga Athenian at Spartan.

Source: World History Crash Course

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