Note 225 — Chapter II · Athens
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Besides its connexion with (a) Semachidai and (b) the party of Peisistratus, we find it as (c) one of twelve cities founded by Cecrops (Strabo, IX. 397, Steph. Byz. s.v.), (d) one of three groups of cities founded by Cecrops (Suid. and Et. Mag. s.v.), (e) a country near Tetrapolis (Bekker, Lex. Seguer. p. 259), (f) a trittys (trittys of the Epakrians: C.I.A. II. 1053 and (?) I. 517b; cp. Loeper, Ath. Mitt. XVII. p. 355, n. 3), and (g) the recipient of payments from Plotheia (C.I.A. II. 570, about 420 B.C.). It is recognized by Milchhoefer that the word is used in a broader and a more restricted sense (ap. Pauly Wissowa s.v. Epakria). Though note à propos of the Epakrian trittys of the inscriptions that trittyes are generally named after not the district but the chief place in the district, e.g. trittys of the Eleusinians, of the Peiraeans, C.I.A. I. 517. Semachidai and Plotheia belong to different tribes (Antiochis and Aegeis), and consequently to different trittyes.