But the friends of Pericles banded together and drove him from the ranks, on the ground that he was under sentence of banishment.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :
long-term consequence: The exile of Cimon, from which he had returned prematuraly, continues.