(Ἐχίων/Echíōn, ‘Snake man’, from ἡ ἔχις/échis, ‘the Snake’).
[1] One of the five 'Spartoi', men who grew from dragon teeth
One of the five ‘Spartoi’, the men who grew from the dragon teeth sown by Cadmus into the Theban earth. He married Cadmus' daughter Agave and was the father of Pentheus (Paus. 9,5,3f.; Apollod. 3,26; 36; Hyg. Fab. 178,6; 184,1; Ov. Met. 3,126; cf. Hor. Carm. 4,4,64: Thebae Echioniae). Aeneas killed the Rutulian Onites, a son of E. and …