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200 200 HISTORY OF GREECK wards to see one of them, Euphemus, sitting in the workshop oi a brazier, and took him aside to the neighboring temple of He- phasstus, where he mentioned in confidence that he had seen the party at work and could denounce them, but that he preferrec being paid for silence, instead of giving information and incurring private enmities. Euphemus thanked him for the warning, de siring him to come next day to the house of Leogoras and his sor Andokides, where he would see them as well as the other partie? concerned. Andokides and the rest otfered to him, under solemn covenant, the sum of two talents, or twelve thousand drachms thus overbidding the reward of ten thousand drachms proclaimed by the senate to any truth-telling informer, with admission to a partnership in the benefits of their conspiracy, supposing that it should succeed. Upon his reply that he would consider the proposition, they desired him to meet them at the house of Kallias son of Telekles, brother-in-law of Andokides : which meeting accordingly took place, and a solemn bargain was concluded in the acropolis. Andokides and his friends engaged to pay the two talents to Diokleides at the beginning of the ensuing month, as the price of his silence. But since this engagement was never performed, Diokleides came with his information to the senate. 1 Such according to the report of Andokides was the story of this informer, which he concluded by designating forty-two individuals, out of the three hundred whom he had seen. The first names whom he specified were those of Mantitheus and Aphepsion, two senators actually sitting among his audience, next came the remaining forty, among whom were Andokides and many of his nearest relatives, his father Leogoras, his first or second cousins and brother-in-law, Charmides, Tauveas, Nisoe- us, Kalias son of Alkmacon, Phrynichus, Eukrates (brother of Nikias the commander in Sicily), and Kritias. But as there were a still greater number of names assuming the total of three hundred to be correct which Diokleides was unable to specify, the commissioner Peisander proposed that Mantitheus and Aphepsion should be at once seized and tortured, in order to force them to disclose their accomplices; the psephism passed in tUe archonship of Skamandrius, whereby it was unlawful to appty 1 Amiokid. de Myster. sects. 37-42.