peace which lasted thirteen years. Clearly Andocides wrote MLXtLar87v r6v Ki/iovoq, confusing the name with the patronymic. What number did he write? Editors normally print 7rEvrTjKOVra in both authors, with Albini, for one, arguing that a scribe familiar with the five-year truce mentioned by Thucydides (1. 112. 1) corrected what Andocides actually wrote ("fifty") to what our manuscripts now have ("five").' While Albini can cite no parallel for such a correction, Glenn Bugh now adduces two examples of Aeschines' altering statements by Andocides which must have appeared impossible on their face.2 Where Andocides seems to say that in the 450s Athens built one hundred ships to replace those which fought at Salamis and also established a cavalry corps for the first time, Aeschines says that they added the ships and horsemen to those which they already had.3 This supports the view that he also corrected Andocides' seemingly impossible assertion that the parties observed a five-year truce for thirteen years. The strongest reason for believing that Andocides actually wrote "five" has escaped notice: his rhetorical strategy requires it. As John J. Bateman says, "In studying a speech, purportedly delivered to a specific audience where particular issues, emotions, and attitudes are at work, one must attempt to define and evaluate the actual speech situation as well as its general historical setting."4 In asking for approval of a treaty which he negotiated with the Spartans, Andocides was facing a hostile audience.5 Many