358 On the Early Kings of Attica. Other names of this animalj as XaKera^ (XaKco) a')(€Ta^ (^'xw) l3a(iaK09 (/3aj3a^a)) as well as tcttl^ itself, refer to the sound which the animal emits. KpeKco is the word used of its note in an epigram of the Anthologia S. 24. 6 (pOeyyov tl veov cevopwoeort Ni7/U0at9 UaiyvLOv^ dvTw^ov Uavl KpeKoov KcXaooi/. That Cecrops is really nothing more than the cicada, the emblem of autochthonia, converted into the first king of Athens, is rendered still more probable by the names of his daughters Udv^poo'o<^^ ^'Epcrrj, '^AypavXo^. In mythology we often find the name of the wife, the daughter or the son, repeating or slightly varying the name or attributes of the husband or father. As the ancients supposed the cicada to be produced from the ground, so they thought that it was wholly nourished by the dew. Ai/aTrero/xei/a c)6, brav ao- (irjcrr} Tts" dcbiaaiv vypov olov vccop^ o Xeyovcnv o yecopyoi w^ — Tp€(pojuL€vcov TTj cpocTM. Arist. ubl s. Ma/cajo/^o/uei; ere tctti^
- Oti SevSpeoov eir aKpoov
'OXiyriv opocrov TreTrcoKco^ BacTiXei)? oTTd)^ deioet^* Anacr. and to the same purpose many well known passages of the classics. Hence the names UdvSpocro^ and'^EjOo*^. '^ Ay pavXos (field piper), for so and not '^AyXavpo^ the name should be written : Heyne ApoU. iii. 14. 2, is a name equally appropriate to the cicada, of whose music the ancients thought so highly, that it was doubted whether the lonians did not wear the golden cicada in their hair in honour of Apollo. Schol. Nub. ubi sup ^^. The name '^ Ay pavXos is susceptible of another ety- mology, " lodging in the field,'*^ which is also appropriate to the cicada ^"^5 and her name and that of her sisters have been interpreted, as if they presided over agriculture, Steph. Byz. 'AypavXrj. Such an interpretation might easily arise when ^^ 'Ax?]€t9 T€TTi^y SpoarepoL^ CTayovecrcn /xeOucrGei? Aypovofxov /xeXTrets Wovcrav €prfxodov. Anth. 3. 24. 6. ^'7 So the cicada is called T-a KaT dpovpav dijSovL, lb. 8. "^KpeKCS evTcipcTOLo Sl tJuo5 'jJ)(eTa fioXTrdv TcTTtJ oloVOflOL'S TCpTTVOTCpOV -)(^evo5. lb. 7» It was probably from the autochthonia of Cecrops that the ephebi at Athens used to swear in the temple of Agraulus virepfxaxoiv dxp^ davdrov n-jji dpexj/afxevi]'!' Petit Leg. Att, 231, Wess.
