[79] Herod. VIII. 41. The snake was of course at first imaginary and Herodotus seems to doubt its existence. [80] Paus. I. 24. 7. [81] Hesiod, ap. Strab. IX. 9. § 393. [82] Soph. _Philoct._ 1327. [83] Paus. VI. 20. 2-4. [84] Clem. Al. _Protr._ III. 45, p. 39. [85] Theod. _Graec. affect. cur._ VIII. 30, p. 908 καὶ γὰρ Ἀθήνησιν, ὡς Ἀντίοχος ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ γέγραφεν ἱστορίᾳ ἄνω γε ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει Κέκροπός ἐστι τάφος παρὰ τὴν Πολιοῦχον αὐτήν. [86] Δελτ. Αρχ. 1889, p. 10, fig. No. 3 ἐν τῷ τοῦ Κέκροπος ἱε[ρῷ. [87] _C.I.A._ III. 1276 ἱε[ρ]εὺς Κέκρο[π]ος Ἀρίστων Σωσιστράτου Ἀθμονεύς. [88] Brit. Mus. I. xxxv.; _C.I.A._ I. 322. The inscription is engraved on two slabs of Pentelic marble. [89] _loc. cit._ line 83 ἐπὶ τε͂ι προστάσει τε͂ι πρὸς το͂[ι] Κεκροπίοι ἔδει τὸς λίθος τὸς ὀροφιαίος τὸς ἐπὶ το͂ν κορο͂ν ... [90] For the name Caryatid as explained by Vitruvius see my _Mon. and Myth. Anc. Athens_, p. 489. [91] Dörpfeld, ‘Der ursprüngliche Plan des Erechtheion,’ _A. Mitt._ XXIX. p. 104, 1904. [92] Wiegand, _Die archäische Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen_ (1904), p. 106; and see also M. H. Lechat, _La sculpture Attique avant Pheidias_, p. 53. [93] Herod. VII. 41 λέγουσι Ἀθηναῖοι ὄφιν μέγαν φύλακα τῆς ἀκροπόλιος ἐνδιαιτᾶσθαι ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ. [94] Eur. _Ion_ 21-26, trans. Dr Verrall. [95] Brit. Mus. Cat. E 418. See my _Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens_, p. xxxi. Two snakes also appear as Dr Wiegand _op. cit._ points out in the Atthis attributed to Amelesagoras; see Westermann _Paradoxogr._ XII. 63 Ἀμελησαγόρας δὲ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ὁ τὴν Ἀτθίδα συγγράφων ... φησὶ τὰς δὲ Κέκροπος θυγατέρας τὰς δύω Ἄγραυλον καὶ Πάνδροσον τὴν κίστην ἀνοῖξαι καὶ ἰδεῖν δράκοντας δύω περὶ τὸν Ἐριχθόνιον. Hesychius _s.v._ οἰκουρὸς ὄφις says ... οἱ μὲν ἕνα φασὶν οἳ δὲ δύο ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Ἐρεχθέως. [96] _C.I.A._ I. 322, line 44 το͂ν κιόνον το͂ν ἐπὶ τὸ τοίχο τὸ πρὸς τὸ Πανδροσείο, and in _C.I.A._ IV. 321, III. line 32 τὰ μετακιόνια τέτταρα ὄντα τὰ πρὸς τοῦ Πανδροσείου. [97] Δελτ. Αρχ. 1888, p. 87, fig. 1 B, lines 27 and 41 ὁ πρὸς τοῦ Πανδροσείου. [98] P. I. 27. 2 τῷ ναῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς Πανδρόσου ναὸς συνεχής ἐστι. [99] Paus. I. 18. 2. For the vase-paintings that illustrate the story see my _Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens_, p. xxiii. [100] Paus. I. 21. 4 see _Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens_, p. 299. [101] P. I. 22. 5. [102] P. I. 18. 2. [103] See my ‘Mythological Studies—the three daughters of Kekrops,’ _Journ. Hell. Soc._ XII. p. 351, 1891. [104] For a fuller discussion of the Arrephoria in relation to the Thesmophoria, see my _Prolegomena_, p. 131; and for the child in the mystery liknon, p. 525. [105] _C.I.A._ II. 481, 58. [106] _s.v._ ἐπίβοιον. [107] _C.I.A._ I. 322 (Brit. Mus. I. 35. 571), l. 83 ἐπὶ τε͂ι προστάσει τε͂ι πρὸς το͂[ι] Κεκροπίοι ἔδει τὸς λίθος τὸς ὀροφιαίος τὸς ἐπὶ το͂ν κορο͂ν ἐπεργάσασθαι ἄνοθεν, see p. 46. [108] _Anth. Pal._ VI. 280 τάς τε κόρας Λιμνᾶτι Κόρα κόρα, ὡς ἐπιεικὲς ἄνθετο· see my _Prolegomena_, p. 301.