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It was after the first year of a war between Athens and its empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. He was trying to bolster morale and persuade Athenians to fight on - not all agreed with the war which he had engineered, and Sparta was looking for an end to a pointless and damaging war too. So Pericles was looking to justify continuing on with it.

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