Note 77 — Chapter X · IONIC PORTION OF HELLAS. — ATHENS BEFORE SOLON.
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Iôn, the father of the four heroes after whom these tribes were named, was affirmed by one story to be the primitive civilizing legislator of Attica, like Lykurgus, Numa, or Deukaliôn (Plutarch. adv. Kolôten, c. 31, p. 1125).