Bello Peloponnesio huius consilio atque auctoritate Athenienses bellum Syracusanis indixerunt. Ad quod gerendum ipse dux delectus est, duo praeterea collegae dati, Nicias et Lamachus. Id cum appararetur, prius quam classis exiret, accidit ut una nocte omnes Hermae qui in oppido erant Athenis deicerentur praeter unum, qui ante ianuam erat Andocidi'itaque ille postea Mercurius Andocidi vocitatus est.
In the Peloponnesian war it was due to his influence and advice that the Athenians declared war on Syracuse; and to conduct that war he himself was appointed general, along with two colleagues, Nicias and Lamachus. In the midst of the preparations, before the fleet sailed, it happened that on one and the same night all the Hermes-pillars in the city of Athens were thrown down except one; that one was before the door of Andocides, and hence it was afterwards called the Mercury of Andocides.
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