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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDOCIDES , one of the " ten " See also:

Attic orators, was See also:born about 440 B.C. Implicated in the See also:mutilation of the See also:Hermae (415), although he saved his See also:life by turning informer, he was condemned to partial loss of See also:civil rights and went into See also:exile. He engaged in commercial pursuits, and after two unsuccessful attempts returned to See also:Athens under the See also:general See also:amnesty that followed the restoration of the See also:democracy (403), and filled some important offices. In 391 he was one of the ambassadors sent to See also:Sparta to discuss See also:peace terms, but the negotiations failed, and after this See also:time we hear no more of him. Oligarchical in his sympathies, he offended his own party and was distrusted by the democrats. Andocides was no professional orator; his See also:style is See also:simple and lively, natural but inartistic. Speeches extant:— De Reditu, plea for his return and removal of civil disabilities; De Mysteriis, See also:defence against the See also:charge of impiety in attending the Eleusinian mysteries; De See also:Pace, advocating peace with Sparta; Contra Alcibiadem, generally considered See also:spurious. See also:Text:—Blass, 188o, See also:Lipsius, 1888; De Myst., with notes by Hickie, 1885; De Red. and De Myst., with notes by Marchant, 1889; see See also:Jebb, Attic Orators; L. L. See also:Forman, See also:Index Andocideus, 1897.

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