An Athenian king of the Erechtheid house, son of Cecrops by Metiadusa, who reigned after his father but was driven out by the sons of Metion; fleeing to Megara, he married Pylia daughter of Pylas and there became king, and there fathered Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus, the four sons who would recover Athens after him.1
When the line of Erechtheus had run on through Cecrops the younger, that king married Metiadusa, daughter of Eupalamus, and begat Pandion. So the second of the name takes his place on the Athenian throne — grandson of Erechtheus, namesake of the elder Pandion under whom the Tereus tragedy had played out.2
Reigning after Cecrops, Pandion was expelled by the sons of Metion in a sedition, and going to Pylas at Megara he married his daughter Pylia. At a later time he was even appointed king of the city; for Pylas, having slain his father's brother Bias, gave over the kingdom to Pandion and himself went to the Peloponnese, where he founded Pylus. So the deposed Athenian became a Megarian king through his father-in-law's flight.3
While at Megara Pandion begat four sons — Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus. Yet some say that Aegeus was really a son of Scyrius, passed off by Pandion as his own.4
After Pandion's death his sons marched against Athens, expelled the Metionids, and divided the government in four — but Aegeus held the whole power; and from him the line ran on to Theseus. Pausanias too tells how the children returned from their banishment at Megara, drove out the Metionidae, and made Aegeus, as the eldest, king of the Athenians.5
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