Some [sc. say this means] the whole [earth], but others [say it means] Attica. [It is so-called] from Titanios, one of the Titans, rather ancient, who lived near Marathon; he alone did not make war on the gods, as Philochorus [writes] in Tetrapolis, and Istros in [book] 1 of Attic Histories.[1] [Also attested is the phrase] "to cry Titans"; for they used to help humans, listening to them, as Nicander [writes] in [book] 1 of Aetolian Histories.[2] They were considered to be among the Priapic gods.[3]