Cercyon

and Cercyŏnes , a king of Eleusis, son of Neptune, or, according to others, of Vulcan. He obliged all strangers to wrestle with him; and as he was a dexterous wrestler, they were easily conquered and put to death. After many cruelties, he challenged These us in wrestling, and he was conquered and put to death by his antagonist. His daughter Alope was loved by Neptune, by whom she had a child. Cercyon exposed the child, called Hippo tho on; but he was preserved by a mare, and afterwards placed upon his grandfather’s throne by These us. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 7 , li. 439 .— Hyginus , fable 187.— Plutarch , These us .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , chs. 5 & 39.