Andocides
historical figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 23 anchored passages · author page · the sources this author draws on
I · me · myself · Andocides, the son of Leogoras · my · the speaker
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On the Mysteries
The speaker and defendant, defending himself against charges connected with the Mysteries and the Hermae.
What motive could Andocides possibly have for braving so hazardous a trial?
I therefore informed the Council that I knew the offenders, and showed exactly what had occurred. The idea, I said, had been suggested by Euphiletus at a drinking-party; but I opposed it, and succeeded in preventing its execution for the time being. Later, however, I was thrown from a colt of mine in Cynosarges; I broke my collar-bone and fractured my skull, and had to be taken home on a litter.
As I have already told you, gentlemen, my defence will begin at the beginning and omit nothing. I shall deal first with the actual charge which furnished grounds for the lodging of the information that has brought me into court today, profanation of the Mysteries. I shall show that I have committed no act of impiety, that I have never turned informer, that I have never admitted guilt, and that I d …
Against Timarchus
An Athenian (and orator) after whom a herm was popularly, if inaccurately, named; cited as an example in the argument about naming conventions.
Again, that the herm called the Herm of Andocides is not that of Andocides, but a votive offering of the tribe Aegeis.
On the Embassy
Athenian ambassador credited with negotiating a thirty-year peace with the Lacedaemonians.
We therefore sent Andocides and other ambassadors to the Lacedaemonians and negotiated a peace, which we kept for thirty years.
Against Alcibiades
The unnamed first-person speaker of the oration, traditionally identified with Andocides, an Athenian who defends himself against ostracism while attacking Alcibiades.
But since I have been tried and acquitted four times, I do not consider any further discussion of the subject justified.
Now I myself have been publicly tried four times, and have never prevented any private person who so desired from bringing me to justice.
I wish instead to remind you of the past of Alcibiades— although such is the multitude of his misdeeds that I am at a loss where to begin:
On His Return
The exiled Athenian orator delivering this speech, who petitions the Assembly for restoration of his citizen rights.
In fact, I at once proceeded to supply your forces in Samos with oar-spars—this was after the Four Hundred had seized power at Athens —since Archelaus had hereditary connexions with my family and offered me the right of cutting and exporting as many as I wished.
Instead, directly they learned of my arrival, certain of the Four Hundred sought me out, arrested me, and brought me before the Council.
Furthermore, my behaviour today is much more in keeping with my character than my behaviour then, just as it accords far more with the traditions of my family.
Stromata
Athenian orator cited as borrower from Isocrates and from Cratinus's comic phrase.
when Cratinus in the Pytine had said, "The preparation, perhaps, you know," Andocides the orator says, "The preparation, men of the jury, and the eagerness of my enemies, almost all of you will know.
" And again, when Isocrates had said, "We must conjecture the things to come from those that have come before," Andocides does not shrink from saying, "For one must use the things that have happened before as tokens concerning the things that shall be.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Son of Leogoras; co-commander of the reinforcing Athenian squadron of twenty ships sent to Corcyra.
And when the Corcyraeans were encamped on Leucimna, these twenty ships from Athens, which were commanded by Glauco, the son of Leager, and Andocides, the son of Leogoras, coming on through the dead bodies and the wrecks, sailed up to the camp not long after they had been descried.