[507] It may not perhaps be easy to decypher the name of Cecrops: but thus much is apparent, that it is compounded of Ops, and Opis, and related to his symbolical character.
[508] Δρακοντας δυο περι τον Ερικθονιον. Antigonus Carystius. c. 12.
[509] Aristot. de Mirabilibus. vol. 2. p. 717.
[510] Pliny. l. 3. p. 153. l. 8. p. 455.
[511] Æschyli Supplices. p. 516.
[512] L. 3. p. 184.
[513] Apollonius Discolus. c. 12. and Aristot. de Mirabilibus, vol. 2. p. 737.
[514] Aves Diomedis—judicant inter suos et advenas, &c. Isidorus Orig. l. 12. c. 7. Pliny. l. 10. c. 44.
[515] Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 37.
[516] Stephanas Byzant. Οπικοι.