An Elder statesman (n.) is a politician who aged into advice because power moved on.
An Elder statesman (n.) is authority that outlived its office and kept the microphone.
An Elder statesman (n.) is what a partisan becomes when he has no more elections left to lose.
An Elder statesman (n.) is a politician who has outlived everyone able to contradict him.
Pericles (n.) stood before his people as public orator in the beautiful rigidity of a marble Olympian, speaking calmly, mantle draperies unmoved, countenance unchanged, and represented the very image of that cosmos.
Pericles (n.) answered a richer rival with jury pay: beaten in private wealth by Cimon, he gave the people gifts out of their own property.
A Senator (n.) at Rome, forced to obey tribal laws he could not vote on, was in that respect less free than the meanest citizen.
A Senator (n.) is the freedman's colophon: entering the senate, he enters the handsomest and sleekest slavery.
A Senator (n.) twice consul is no less a slave than one sold three times over; the only difference is that Caesar is master of a larger household.
Senator (n.) was once an old man on his farm: Cincinnatus was at the plough when word came that he had been named Dictator.
Theramenes (n.) is like a weather vane tried for treason.