Τρῶα δ’ Ἐριχθόνιος τέκετο Τρώεσσιν ἄνακτα.
Thus the name of Troes at that time covered the whole race. But the town of Ilios must, from its name, have been built not earlier than the time of Ilus, the son of Tros. And now the dynasty separates into two lines, as Assaracus, the brother of Ilus, continues to reign in Dardania. Thus the local existence of the Dardanian name is prolonged; for it is plain that the Dardanian throne was associated, at least in dignity, with a rival, and not a subordinate, sovereignty. Still it does not extend beyond the hills. It was over these that Æneas fled from Achilles[480]. But even the Dardanians did not wholly cease to be known by the appellation of Trojans; for not only does Homer frequently use the dominant name Troes for the entire force opposed to the Greeks, which is naming the whole from the principal part, but he also uses the word Troes to signify all that part of the force, which was under the house of Dardanus in either branch; and he distinguishes this portion from the rest of the force described under the name ἐπίκουροι, at the opening of the Trojan Catalogue:
ἔνθα τότε Τρῶές τε διέκριθεν, ἠδ’ ἐπίκουροι[481].
This line is followed by an account of the whole force opposed to the Greeks, in sixteen divisions. Of these the eleven last bear each their own national name, beginning with the Pelasgians of Larissa, and ending with the Lycians; and they are under leaders, whom the whole course of the poem marks as not being Trojan, but independent. These eleven evidently were the ἐπίκουροι of ver. 815.
The five first contingents are introduced and commanded as follows:
1. Troes under Hector[482]:
Τρωσὶ μὲν ἡγεμόνευε μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ.
2. Dardanians, under Æneas, with two of the (ten) sons of Antenor, Archelochus and Acamas, for his colleagues[483]:
Δαρδανίων αὖτ’ ἦρχεν ἐῢς παῖς Ἀγχίσαο.
3. Trojans of Zelea, at the extreme spur of Ida, under Pandarus[484]: