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Ectēnes

Ἔκτηνες). A people who, according to Pausanias, first inhabited the territory of Thebes, in Boeotia. Ogyges (q.v.) is said to have been their first king. They were exterminated by a plague, and succeeded by the Hyantes. See Pausan. ix. 5.

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