Toward the end of his life he was accused of impiety and compelled to leave Athens.

He went to Lampsacus where he died about 428 at the age of seventy-two.

The Atom had to flee from the center back to the border, whence it originally came ; the controlling N~ons (Pericles) had no longer the power to protect.

It is a significant fact of the age, a change is taking place which is otherwise betokened by the Peloponnesian War.

Anaxagoras had deliv- ered his message and taught his generation.