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Such were his doings in the matter of Adrastus. With respect to the
Dorian tribes, not choosing the Sicyonians to have the same tribes as
the Argives, he changed all the old names for new ones; and here he
took special occasion to mock the Sicyonians, for he drew his new
names from the words "pig," and "ass," adding thereto the usual
tribe-endings; only in the case of his own tribe he did nothing of the
sort, but gave them a name drawn from his own kingly office. For he
called his own tribe the Archelai, or Rulers, while the others he
named Hyatae, or Pig-folk, Oneatae, or Assfolk, and
Choereatae, or Swine-folk. The Sicyonians kept these names, not
only during the reign of Clisthenes, but even after his death, by the
space of sixty years: then, however, they took counsel together, and
changed to the well-known names of Hyllaeans, Pamphylians, and
Dymanatae, taking at the same time, as a fourth name, the title of
Aegialeans, from Aegialeus the son of Adrastus.
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