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1 415 B.C.
2 The principal sources for this famous incident are Thuc. 6.27-29, 53, 60-61; Plut. Alc. 18-21, and especially Andoc. 1 The faces of the statues were mutilated, and perhaps also τὰ αἰδοῖα (Aristoph. Lys. 1094). Andocides gives the names of those whose goods were confiscated and sold after the mutilation of the Hermae, and many of these are confirmed on a fragmentary inscription (I.G. I(2). 327, 332).
3 Probably the Diocleides mentioned by Andoc. 1.37 ff., who gives the story in considerable detail.
4 Or "slingers as well as more than seven thousand cavalry from both the citizens and allies."
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(3):
- Smith's Bio, Alcibi'ades
- Smith's Bio, Diocleides
- Smith's Bio, Fide'nas
- Cross-references in notes from this page
(4):
- Andocides, On the Mysteries
- Andocides, On the Mysteries, 37
- Plutarch, Alcibiades, 18
- Thucydides, Histories, 6.27
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(2):
- LSJ, κατακληρ-όω
- LSJ, μι_σο-πονηρέω