Cecrops, opis, ma. g. An auncient king of Atheus, whose image was made hauing two heads. He first in those parts brought in the bonde and knotte of marriage, inuented images, bul ded aulters, and offered sacrifices: which things before him were neuer knowen in Greece. He was before the incarnation. 1589. yeares.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cēcrops, ŏpis, m., = *ke/kroy, the most ancient king of Attica, who went there from the Egyptian Sais, and was founder of the citadel of Athens (which is hence called Cecropia; v. infra), Hyg. Fab. 48 and 158; Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 194; acc. to the fable, half man and half serpent; hence, geminus, Ov. M. 2, 555.—II. Hence, A. Cēcrŏpĭus, a, um, adj.1.Of or pertaining to Cecrops, Cecropian; and subst.: Cēcrŏpĭa, ae, f., the citadel of Athens, built by Cecrops, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 194: arx, Ov. M. 6, 70; 15, 427.—Hence, meton. for Athens, Cat. 64, 79.—Far more freq., 2.Pertaining to Athens or Attica, Athenian, Attic: fines,
the Attic territory
, Lucr. 6, 1139 Lachm.: coloni, Prop. 2 (3), 33, 29: Eumolpus (born at Athens), Ov. M. 11, 93: thymus, Verg. G. 4, 270: apes, id. ib. 4, 177; Mart. 9, 14: mel, id. 13, 24: cothurnus,
tragedy
,
which was native to Athens
, Hor. C. 2, 1, 12: domūs opprobrium (on account of Procne, the daughter of the Athenian king Pandion; cf. Atthis), id. ib. 4, 12, 6: fides, i. e.
the fidelity of the friends Theseus and Pirithous
, Stat. S. 2, 6, 55: dote madent pectora,
full of Athenian wisdom
, Mart. 7, 69, 2; cf. id. 1, 40.—B. Cēcrŏpĭdes, ae, m., a male descendant of Cecrops; voc. Cecropidā (i. e. Theseus), Ov. M. 8, 550.—Appel. for one of noble descent, Juv. 8, 46 sq.—Plur.: Cē-crŏpĭdae, ārum, Athenians, Ov. M. 7, 486; 7, 502; Mart. Cap. 4, 424; 9, 888.—C. Cēcrŏpĭs, ĭdis (dat. plur. Cecropidis, Lact. 1, 17, 14; voc. Cecropĭ, Ov. H. 10, 100), f., a female descendant of Cecrops; so his daughter Aglauros, Ov. M. 2, 806; cf. id. ib. 2, 797.—Adj.: ales, i. e.
Procne
, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 32: virgines, Lact. 1, 17, 14.—In plur., Procne and Philomele, daughters of Pandion, Ov. M. 6, 667.—Also, 2.An Athenian woman, Juv. 6, 187; and adj. for Attic, of Attica: terra, Ov. H. 10, 100.