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 TEUKRIAXS OF GERGIS. -MITYLEXK. 197 tending by arms about 600-580 B. c., for the possession of Si- geium at the entrance of the Hellespont r 1 probably the Lesbian settlements on the southern coast of the Troad, lying as they do BO much nearer to the island, as well as the Tenedian settlements on the western coast opposite Tenedos, had been formed at some time prior to this epoch. We farther read of -ZEolic inhabitants as possessing Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont/ 3 The name Teukrians gradually vanished out of present use, and came to belong only to the legends of the past ; preserved either in connection with the worship of the Sminthian Apollo, or by writers such as Hellanikus and Kephalon of Gergis, from whence it passed to the later poets and to the Latin epic. It appears that the native place of Kephalon was a town called Gergis or Ger- githes near Kyme : there was also another place called Gergetha on the river Ka'ikus, near its sources, and therefore higher up in Mysia. It was from Gergithes near Kyme (according to Strabo), that the place called Gergis in Mount Ida was settled : 3 probably the non-Hellenic inhabitants, both near Kyme and in the region of Ida, were of kindred race, but the settlers who went from Kyme to Gergis in Ida were doubtless Greeks, and contributed in this manner to the conversion of that place from a Teukrian to an Hellenic settlement. In one of those violent dislocations of inhab- itants, which were so frequent afterwards among the successors of Alexander in Asia Minor, the Teukro-Hellenic population of the Idoean Gergis is said to have been carried away by Attalus of Pergamus, in order to people the village of Gergetha near the river Kai'kus. "We are to regard the JEolic Greeks as occupying not only their twelve cities on the continent round the Ekeitic gulf, and the neighboring islands, of which the chief were Lesbos and Tenedos, but also as gradually penetrating and Hellenizing the Idiean region and the Troad. This la*t process belongs probably to a period subsequent to 776 B. c., but Kyme and Lesbos doubtless count as JEoh'c from an earlier period. The Tenkrians, in the conception of Herodotus, were the Trojans de- icribed in the Iliad, the Tsvupif yr seems the same as 'I?.if y?i (ii, 118). 1 Herodot. v, 94. * Herodot. ix, 1 15.
 * Strabo, xiii, 589-61 6.