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197 EXCITEMENT AT ATHENS. 197 ers received the promised rewards, after some debate jis to tlift parties entitled to receive^the reward ; for Pythonikus, the citizen who had produced the slave Andromachus, pretended to the first claim, while Androkles, one of the senators, contended that the senate collectively ought to receive * the money ; a strange pre- tension, which we do not know how he justified. At last, how- ever, at the time of the Panathenaic festival, Andromachus tha slave received the first reward of ten thousand drachms ; Teu- krus the metic, the second reward of one thousand drachms. A large number of citizens, many of them of the first consider- ation in the city, were thus either lying in prison or had fled into exile. But the alarm, the agony, and the suspicion, in the public m;nd, went on increasing rather than diminishing. The infor- mation hitherto received had been all partial, and, with the ex ception of Agariste, all the informants had been either slaves or metics, not citizens ; while Teukrus, the only one among them who had stated anything respecting the mutilation of the Herman, did not profess to be a party concerned, or to know all those who were. 2 The people had heard only a succession of disclosure?, all attesting a frequency of irreligious acts, calculated to insult and banish the local gods who protected their country and consti- tution ; all indicating that there were many powerful citizens bent on prosecuting such designs, interpreted as treasonable, yet none communicating any full or satisfactory idea of the Hermo- of all their sentiments ; and to put any prisoner to death until they arrived, or believed themselves to have arrived, at the knowledge of the whole, would tend so far to bar their own chance of obtaining evidence : 6 Je c%wf 6 TUV 'A-&?ivaiuv uafievof Aapuv, uf faro, rb aaQet;, nal deivbv Troiovfievoi Trporepov EL roijf etripovXevovTac a(puv TU Tt'kij'&ei, /IT) elaovrat, etc. Wachsmuth says (p. 194) : " The bloodthirsty dispositions of the people had been excited by the previous murders : the greater the number of vic- tims to be slaughtered, the better were the people pleased," etc. This is an inaccuracy quite in harmony with the general spirit of his narrative. It is contradicted, implicitly, by the very words of Thucydides which he trans- cribes in his note 108. 1 Andokid. de Mysteriis, sects. 27-28. Kal 'AvfpoK^f v trep TTK /Jot/7/5. commissioner of inquiry at the time when Pythonikus presented the firs* information of the slave Andromachus, was himself among the parties denounced by Teukrus (And. de Mys. sects. 14, 15),
 * Andokid. de Myster. sect. 3C. It seems that Diognetus, who had bet>