Erechthidae
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Erechtheus' line · children of the soil · host of Athens · sons of Erechtheus
in the texts
Ion
The royal lineage of Athens descended from earth-born Erichthonius/Erechtheus, noted for the custom of protecting infants with golden snake-charms.
Enough, enough for us Erechtheus’ line that erst held sway!
Hence in that land among the Erechthidae’tis a custom to protect their babes with charms of golden snakes.
And be this your prayer, fair maidens, that the ancient house of Erechtheus may obtain by clear oracles the blessing of children, though late it come.
Suppliants
The Athenian army and citizenry, named after the ancestral king Erechtheus, who march with Theseus to recover the Argive dead.
and loud he called to them, that the earth rang again, My sons, if ye cannot restrain the earth-born warriors’ stubborn spear, the cause of Pallas is lost.
Theseus, thy neighbour, one who well may win the boon he craves, begs as a favour thy permission to bury the dead, winning to thyself thereby the love of all the Erechthidae.
Now when Phorbas, who captained the cavalry of the Erechthidae, saw the thronging chariots, he and they who had the charge of the Theban horse met hand to hand, and by turns were victors and vanquished.