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206 j/OG HISTORY OF GKKlLCh tody on suspicion, except those against whom Andokides informed were forthwith released : those who had fled out of apprehension. A-ere allowed to return ; while those whom he named as guilty, were tried, convicted, and put to death. Such of them as had already fled, were condemned to death in their absence, and a reward offered for their heads. 1 And though discerning men were not satisfied with the evidence upon which these sentences were pronounced, yet the general public fully believed themselves to have punished the real offenders, and were thus inexpressibly relieved from the depressing sense of unexpiated insult to the gods, &3 well as of danger to their political constitution from the withdrawal of divine protection. 2 Andokides himself was par- doned, and was for the time an object, apparently, even of public gratitude, so that his father Leogoras who had been among the parties imprisoned, ventured to indict a senator named Speusip- pus for illegal proceedings towards him, and obtained an almost unanimous verdict from the dikastery.3 But the character of a statue-breaker and an informer could never be otherwise than odious at Athens. Andokides was either banished by the indirect effect of a general disqualifying decree ; or at least found that he had made so many enemies, and incurred so much obloquy, by his conduct in this affair, as to make it necessary for him to quit the city. He remained in banishment for many years, and seems never to have got clear of the hatred which his conduct in this nefarious proceeding so well merited. 4 1 Andokid. dc Mystcr. sect C6 ; Thucyd. vi, 60 ; Philochorus. Fragment. Ill, cd. Didot. dokid. de Reditu. sect. 8. 3 See Andokid. de Mysteriis. sect. 17. There are several circumstances not easily intelligible respecting this ypaffi irapavouuv, which Andokides alleges that his father Leogoras brought against the senator Speusippus, before a dikasteiy of six thousand persons (a number very difficult to believe), out of whom he says that Speusippus only obtained two hundred votes ; but if this trial ever took place at all. we cannot believe that it could have taken place until after the public mind was tranquillized by the dis- closures of Andokides, especially as Leogoras was actually in prison along with Audokides immediately before those disclosures were given ri.
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