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Andocides was the son of Leogoras, son of that Andocides who once made peace between the Lacedaemonians and the AtheniansThe Thirty Years’ Peace, by the terms of which Athens gave up Megara and its ports in 446-445 b.c.; he was as regards his deme a Cydathenian or a ThorianSee note d below for the source of this error. and was descended from nobles, and even, according to Hellanicus, Cf. Müller, Frag. Hist. Graec. i. p. 55, no. 78. from Hermes; for the race of heralds traces its origin to him. On this account, too, he was once chosen along with Glaucon to go with twenty ships to aid the Corcyraeans who were embroiled with the Corinthians. Cf. Thucydides, i. 51, who seems to have been the source of this error. The colleague of Glaucon on this expedition was Dracontides, son of Leogoras of Thurae, and not Andocides, who at the time, 433 b.c., was too young. See I. G. i. 295 (ed. min.), and Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, 828 and 4551. And after this he was accused of impiety as being one of those who mutilated the HermaeThe Hermae, square pillars surmounted by the head of the god Hermes, stood before the doors of Athenian houses. In 415 b.c., just as the great expedition against Sicily was about to sail, these Hermae were systematically mutilated in the night by unknown persons. and as profaning the mysteries of Demeter [because at an earlier time he was dissipated and in a nocturnal revel had broken one of the images of the god, and when he was indicted refused to surrender the slave whom his accusers were looking for, so that he gained a bad name and was suspected and accused in the second suit also, which was brought shortly after the expedition went to Sicily, when the Corinthians sent in men from Leontini and Egesta and, as the Athenians hesitated about aiding them privately, they mutilated the Hermae about the market-place, as Cratippus says, and profaned the mysteries besides]. At his trial on these charges he was acquitted on condition that he should inform against the wrongdoers. He exerted himself greatly and discovered those who were guilty of the sacrilege, among whom he informed against his own father. And he brought about the conviction and death of all the others, but saved his father, although he had already been put in prison, by promising that he would be of great service to the city. And he kept his promise; for Leogoras caused the conviction of many men who were embezzling public funds and committing other misdeeds. And for these reasons he was acquitted of the charge.
