Cecrops

I think also that the ancients called Cecrops half man and half dragon [821] not because, as some say, he became from a good king wild and dragon-like, but contrariwise because he was originally perverse and terrible, and afterwards became a mild and humane king.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

At Athens, as at Rome, we find traces of succession to the throne by marriage with a royal princess; for two of the most ancient kings of Athens, namely Cecrops and Amphictyon, are said to have married the daughters of their predecessors.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

At Athens, as at Rome, we find traces of succession to the throne by marriage with a royal princess; for two of the most ancient kings of Athens, namely Cecrops and Amphictyon, are said to have married the daughters of their predecessors.

Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium 1922

Athens, namely Cecrops and Amphictyon, are said to have married the daughters of their predecessors.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

At Athens, as at Rome, we find traces of succession to the throne by marriage with a royal princess; for two of the most ancient kings of Athens, namely Cecrops and Amphictyon, are said to have married the daughters of their predecessors.

The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

This I infer because Solon said that the priests in their narrative of that war mentioned most of the names which are recorded prior to the time of Theseus, such as Cecrops, and

Critias 2006

Strabo seems to think, that most of the antient names were foreign; [1273] such as Cecrops, and Codrus, and Arclus, and Cothus: and he is certainly right in his opinion.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759

This is Cecrops, understood by humans to have been half snake and half man, founder ofAthensand the institution of marriage — a ruler predating the discovery of wine.

One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I 2010

“No one would pay for the hemlock for him,” not since Cecrops 'wife was involved.

One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I 2010

Daughters of Cecrops these, charged not to see him.

Ion 2008