Letter 472: What have you done, Andronicus?

To Andronicus (356) What a thing you have done, Andronicus! I wrote to you, but you showed it to others, and they made it public among the people here, and you have become for us the beginning of a war. Then, having committed such a wrong, instead of begging pardon, you bring accusations and perhaps call me a scoundrel because I write to you by way of Harmatos [a postal route], when you ought rather to marvel that I dared to write to you at all. 2. If, then, the Athenians still keep the Eleusinian rites, we will write again; but if you set out before the Eponymous Heroes [the public notice-board in Athens, before the statues of the ten eponymous tribal heroes] a question for anyone who wishes to learn, you will admit that you long for our silence.

Ἀνδρονίκῳ (356) Οἶον ἔδρασας, Ἀνδρόνικε; σοὶ μὲν ἐγὼ γέγραφα, σὺ δὲ ἑτέροις ἔδειξας, οἱ δὲ εἰς τοὺς ἐνθάδε ἐξήνεγκαν, καὶ γέγονας ἡμῖν ἀρχὴ πολέμου. εἶτα τοιαῦτα ἁμαρτὼν ἀφεὶς παραιτεῖ- σθαι ἐγκαλεῖς καὶ πονηρὸν ἴσως καλεῖς, ὅτι σοι τὴν δι’ Ἅρ- μάτος γράφω δέον θαυμάζειν ὅτι σοι γράφειν ἐτόλμησα. 2 εἰ μὲν οὖν ἀλλὰ Ἀττικοὶ τὰ Ἐλευσίνια, πάλιν ἐπιστελοῦμεν· εἰ δὲ προθήσεις πρόσθε τῶν Ἐπωνύμων τῷ βου- λομέιῳ μαθεῖν, ὁμολογήσεις τῆς σιωπῆς ἡμῶν ἐρᾶν.