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 THE TEUKRIANS. 335 ww name Teukrians never once occurs in the old epic. It appears to have been first noticed by the elegiac poet Kallinus, about 660 B. c., who connected it by an alleged immigration of Teu- krians from Krete into the region round about Ida. Others again denied this, asserting that the primitive ancestor, Teukrus, had come into the country from Attica, 1 or that he was of indige- nous origin, born from Skamander and the nymph Idsea all various manifestations of that eager thirst after an eponymous hero which never deserted the Greeks. Gergithians occur in more than one spot in JEolis, even so far southward as the neighborhood of Kyme : 2 the name has no place in Homer, but he mentions Gorgythion and Kebriones as illegitimate sons of Priam, thus giving a sort of epical recognition both to Gergis and Kebren. As Herodotus calls the old epical Trojans by the name Teukrians, so the Attic Tragedians call them Phrygians ; though the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite represents Phrygians and Trojans as completely distinct, specially noting the diversity of language ; 3 and in the Iliad the Phrygians are simply num- bered among the allies of Troy from the far Ascania, without in- lication of any more intimate relationship. 4 Nor do the tales which connect Dardanus with Samothrace and Arcadia find countenance in the Homeric poems, wherein Dardanus is the son of Zeus, having no root anywhere except in Dardania. 5 The mysterious solemnities of Samothrace, afterwards so highly vene- rated throughout the Grecian world, date from a period much later than Homer ; and the religious affinities of that island as well as of Krete with the territories of Phrygia and JEolis, were certain, according to the established tendency of the Grecian mind, to beget stories of a common genealogy. To pass from this legendary world, an aggregate of streams distinct and heterogeneous, which do not willingly come into con 1 Strabo, xiii. p. 604 ; Apollodor. iii. 12, 4. Kephalon of Gergis called Teukrus a Kretan (Stcphan. Byz. v. 'Apttr/?)?). 2 Clearchus ap. Athaene. vi. p. 256 ; Strabo, xiii. p. 589-616. 3 Homer, Hymn, in Vener. 116. 4 Iliad, ii. 863. Asius, the brother of Hecabe, lives in Phrygia on the banki of the Sangarins (Iliad, xvi. 717). 5 See Hellanik.Fragm. 129. 130. ed.Didot: and Kephalon Gergithius ap. Steph. Byz. v. '