In the case of the Dardan house, we have found, among other indications of their Hellic affinities, the two evidently Hellic names of the Hellespont and the River Selleeis.
The name of Ephyre.
There is another local name in Homer of paramount importance as a key to the question respecting the ruling Hellic tribes, the name of Ephyre (Ἐφύρη).
Let us endeavour to collect the scattered lights which either the etymology, or the use and associations of the term in Homer, may supply.
Its cognate names.
And, first, we may notice in Homer a large cluster of names which are found running over Greece, and which are evidently in etymological association with one another: I will bring these together, before endeavouring to estimate their relation to the name Ephyre.
1. Φᾶρις, Il. ii. 582. In Lacedæmon.
2. Φεραὶ, Il. ii. 711. In Thessaly.
3. Φήρη, Il. v. 543. Between Pylus and Sparta.
4. Φήραι, Il. ix. 151, 293. Od. iii. 488. The same.