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“Do you refer to the judgment of the gods,1 which Cecrops delivered in his court because of his virtue?”“Yes, and the care and birth of Erectheus,2 and the war waged in his day with all the adjacent country, and the war between the sons of Heracles3 and the Peloponnesians, and all the wars waged in the days of Theseus,4 in all of which it is manifest that they were champions among the men of their time.
1 i.e., between Poseidon and Athena for the possession of Attica.
2 Iliad, II. 547. Ε᾿ρεχθῇος μεγαλήτορος οὕ ποτ᾽ Ἀθήνη θρέψε Διὸς θυγάτηρ, τέκε δὲ ζείδωρος Ἄρουρα.
3 The Athenians claimed that it was through their assistance that the sons of Heracles gained the victory (Herodotus, ix. 27).
4 Against the Amazons and Thracians.
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