not at all related to the family of Erechtheus, should be holding
the kingdom, and that after him, Theseus, a visitor and stranger,
should be destined to succeed to it, broke out into open war. And,
dividing themselves into two companies, one part of them marched
openly from Sphettus, with their father, against the city; the
other, hiding themselves in the village of Gargettus, lay in
ambush, with a design to set upon the enemy on both sides. They
had with them a crier of the township of Agnus, named Leos, who
discovered to Theseus all the designs of the Pallentidae. He
immediately fell upon those that lay in amuscade, and cut them all
off; upon tidings of which Pallas and his company fled and were
dispersed.

From hence they say is derived the custom among the people of the
township of Pallene to have no marriages or any alliance with the
people of Agnus, nor to suffer the criers to pronounce in their
proclamations the words used in all other parts of the country,
Acouete Leoi (Hear ye people), hating the very sound of Leo,
because of the treason of Leos.

Theseus, longing to be in action, and desirous also to make
himself popular, left Athens to fight with the bull of Marathon,
which did no small mischief to the inhabitants of Tetrapolis. And,
having overcome it, he brought it alive in triumph through the
city, and afterwards sacrificed it to the Delphian Apollo. The
story of Hecale, also, of her receiving and entertaining Theseus
in this expedition, seems to be not altogether void of truth; for
the townships round about, meeting upon a certain day, used to
offer a sacrifice, which they called Hecalesia, to Jupiter
Hecaleius, and to pay honor to Hecale, whom, by a diminutive name,