His ancestors derived their pedigree from Erechtheus, the son of the
Earth and of Vulcan; but he was nearest to Lycomedes and Lycurgus,
whom the people honored with public solemnities. There is a succession
of those of the race who were priests of Neptune, in a complete table
placed in the Erechtheum, painted by Ismenias the Chalcidian; in the
same place stood wooden images of Lycurgus, and of his sons, Abron,
Lycurgus, and Lycophron; made by Timarchus and Cephisodotus, the
sons of Praxiteles. His son Abron dedicated the table; and coming to
the priesthood by right of succession, he resigned to his brother
Lycophron, and hence he is painted as giving a trident. But Lycurgus
had made a draught of all his actions, and hung it on a column before
the wrestling-court built by himself, that all might read that would;
and no man could accuse him of any peculation. He likewise proposed to
the people to crown Neoptolemus, the son of Anticles, and to dedicate
statues to him, because he had promised and undertaken to cover the
altar of Apollo in the market with gold, according to the order of the
oracle. He decreed honors likewise to Diotimus, the son of Diopithes
of Euonymus, in the year when Ctesicles was magistrate.