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Neco

or NECHO (Νεκώς, Νέχως, Νεκαῦς, Νεχαώς, Νεχαώ).

1. Father of Psammetichus, was put to death by Sabacon, the Aethiopian usurper of the Egyptian throne (Hdt. 2.152).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.