Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Cephălus, Cercops

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Cercops

（Κέρκωψ).

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One of the oldest of the Orphic poets, the author of an epic on the descent of Orpheus into Hades. (See Orphic Poets.)

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A Milesian poet, the rival of Hesiod. He is said to have written an epic called Aegimius, which is, by some, ascribed to Hesiod himself. See Hesiodus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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