When he first entered the palace of Cecrops, he met the princess Aglauria. […] He was the first king the Athenians ever had. […] He first taught letters in Greece, and after his time the Greeks began to read and write. […] Dictys spoke first. […] I should like first to know the true story of the Python, if I could.

The first Ancile was supposed to have fallen from heaven in answer to the prayer of Numa Pompilius. […] He invented the wedge, the axe, the level, and the gimlet, and was the first to use sails. […] The first month of the old Roman year [our March] was sacred to Mars. […] His first famous exploit was against the Gorgon, Medusa. […] Remus was killed in a quarrel with his brother, and Romulus became the first King of Rome.