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204 204 HISTORY OF GREECE. slaves), and that the senators thus became satisfied of the truth of what Andokides affirmed. He delivered in twenty-two names of citizens as having been the mutilators of the Hermoe : eighteen of these names, including Euphiletus and Meletus, had already been specified in the information of Teukrus ; the remaining four, were Pansetius, Diakritus, Lysistratus, and Chasredemus ; all of whom fled, the instant their names were mentioned, without wait- ing the chance of being seized. As soon as the senate heard the story of Andokides, they proceeded to question Diokleides over again ; who confessed that he had given a false deposition, and begged for mercy, mentioning Alkibiades the Phegusian a relative of the commander in Sicily and Amiantus, as having suborned him to the crime. Both of them fled immediately on this revelation ; but Diokleides was detained, sent before the dikastery for trial, and put to death.' The foregoing is the story which Andokides, in the oration De Mysteriis, delivered between fifteen and twenty years afterwards, represented himself to have communicated to the senate at this perilous crisis. But it probably is not the story which he really did tell, certainly not that which his enemies represented him as having told : least of all does it communicate the whole truth, or afford any satisfaction to such anxiety and alarm as are described to have been prevalent at the time. Nor does it accord with the brief information of Thucydides, who tells us that Andokides impeached himself, along with others, as participant in the mutila- tion. 2 Among the accomplices against whom he informed, his enemies affirmed that his own nearest relatives were included, though this latter statement is denied by himself. We may be sure, therefore, that the tale which Andokides really told was 1 The narrative, which I have here given in substance, is to be found iu Andokid. de Myst. sects. 48-66. 2 Thucyd. vi, 60. Kat 6 fiev avrof re a #' iavroii KOI icar 1 UA/.UV fiqvvei rb rCiv 'Epuuv, etc. To the same effect, see the hostile oration of Lysias contra Andocidem, Or. -si, sects. 36, 37, 51 : also Andokides himself, De Mysteriis, sect. 71 ; De Rcditu, sect. 7. If we may believe the Pseudo- Plutarch (Vit.x, Orator, p. 834),Andok ides had on a previous occasion beon guilty of drunken irregularity au<3 damaging a statue