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Hippo'thoon

(Ἱπποθόων), an Attic hero, a son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of Cercyon. He had a heroum at Athens; and one of the Attic phylae was called after him Hippothoontis. (Demosth. Epitaph. p. 1389; Paus. 1.5.2, 39.3, 38.4.) [L.S]

Hippo'thoon

(Ἱπποθόων), a Greek tragedian, whose exact time is unknown, but who probably lived shortly before Alexander the Great. He is several times quoted by Stobaeus, who also cites a poet Hippothoüs, the identity of whom with Hippothoön is uncertain. He is sometimes erroneously reckoned among the comic poets, as, for example, by Fabricius. (Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 451; Welcker, die Griech. Tragyöd. p. 1099; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 525.) [P.S]

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